Falco

Summary

Falco is a taxon^[1]. Falco ranks in the top 0.25% of taxon entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (5,075 views/month, #496 of 195,241).^[2]

Key Facts

• Falco's instance of is recorded as taxon^[3].
• Falco's instance of is recorded as organisms known by a particular common name^[4].
• Falco is classified at the rank of genus^[5].
• Falco belongs to the parent taxon Falconinae^[6].
• Falco's scientific name is Falco^[7].
• Falco is a type of bird of prey^[8].
• Falco's Commons category is recorded as Falco^[9].
• The taxonomic type of Falco is Common Kestrel^[10].
• Falco's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Falco (genus)^[11].
• Falco's Commons gallery is recorded as Falco^[12].
• Falco's depicted by is recorded as Textile with Falcons^[13].
• Falco's described by source is recorded as Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary^[14].
• Falco's described by source is recorded as Small Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary^[15].
• Falco's described by source is recorded as Metropolitan Museum of Art Tagging Vocabulary^[16].
• Falco's described by source is recorded as Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition^[17].
• Falco's described by source is recorded as The Domestic Encyclopædia; Or, A Dictionary Of Facts, And Useful Knowledge^[18].
• Falco's described by source is recorded as New International Encyclopedia^[19].
• Falco's described by source is recorded as Pauly–Wissowa^[20].
• Falco's described by source is recorded as Explanatory Dictionary of the Living Great Russian Language^[21].
• Falco's on focus list of Wikimedia project is recorded as Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4^[22].

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Classification

Under binomial nomenclature, Falco is Falco^[7]. Falco is classified at the rank of genus^[5]. Falco is classified within Falconinae^[6]. The taxonomic type of Falco is Common Kestrel^[10].

Identifiers

Falco's iNaturalist taxon ID is recorded as 4638^[23]. Falco's NCBI taxonomy ID is recorded as 8952^[24]. Falco's Encyclopedia of Life ID is recorded as 45510787^[25]. Falco's GBIF taxon ID is recorded as 2480996^[26]. Falco's ITIS TSN is recorded as 175598^[27].

Discovery and Description

Things named for Falco include Team Falcons^[28], an esports team^[29], in Saudi Arabia^[30], founded in 2017^[31], headquartered in Riyadh^[32]; uranocircite^[33], a mineral species^[34]; and Sokolenko^[35], an Ukrainian family name^[36].

Why It Matters

Falco ranks in the top 0.25% of taxon entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (5,075 views/month, #496 of 195,241).^[2] Falco has Wikipedia articles in 30 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.^[37] Falco is known by 38 alternative names across languages and contexts.^[38]

Entities named for Falco include Team Falcons^[28], an esports team^[29], in Saudi Arabia^[30], founded in 2017^[31], headquartered in Riyadh^[32]; uranocircite^[33], a mineral species^[34]; and Sokolenko^[35], an Ukrainian family name^[36].