Breeding Investigation Madagascar 
10,000 Birds
SEPTEMBER 17, 2015
These falcons mostly feed on insects, but in the breeding season they catch migrating passerines – they even time their breeding to coincide with Autumn migration of passerines in late summer! Madagascar must have separated from Africa long before they evolved. Eleonora’s Falcons are migrants themselves.
10,000 Birds
SEPTEMBER 21, 2011
But it also occurs in the Indian Ocean, from Aldabra near Madagascar to Western Australia. The species breeds on an extraordinary number of islands, and has a worldwide population of perhaps over five million birds, and this is in spite of declines to due hunting, persecution and introduced species.
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