Falco
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Summary
Falco is a taxon[1]. Falco ranks in the top 0.25% of taxon entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (12,309 views/month, #496 of 195,241).[2]
Key Facts
- Instance of: organisms known by a particular common name[3]
- Taxon rank: genus[4]
- Parent taxon: Falconinae[5]
- Taxon name: Falco[6]
- Subclass of: bird of prey[7]
- Commons category: Falco[8]
- Taxonomic type: Common Kestrel[9]
- Topic's main category: Category:Falco (genus)[10]
- Commons gallery: Falco[11]
- Depicted by: Textile with Falcons[12]
- Described by source: Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[13], Small Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[14], Metropolitan Museum of Art Tagging Vocabulary[15], Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition[16], The Domestic Encyclopædia; Or, A Dictionary Of Facts, And Useful Knowledge[17], New International Encyclopedia[18], Pauly–Wissowa[19], Explanatory Dictionary of the Living Great Russian Language[20]
- On focus list of Wikimedia project: Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4[21]
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Identifiers
Falco's iNaturalist taxon ID is recorded as 4638[22]. Falco's NCBI taxonomy ID is recorded as 8952[23]. Falco's Encyclopedia of Life ID is recorded as 45510787[24]. Falco's GBIF taxon ID is recorded as 2480996[25]. Falco's ITIS TSN is recorded as 175598[26].
Discovery and Description
Things named for Falco include Team Falcons[27], an esports team[28], in Saudi Arabia[29], founded in 2017[30], headquartered in Riyadh[31]; uranocircite[32], a mineral species[33]; and Sokolenko[34], an Ukrainian family name[35].
Why It Matters
Falco has Wikipedia articles in 30 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[36] Falco is known by 62 alternative names across languages and contexts.[37]
Entities named for Falco include Team Falcons[27], an esports team[28], in Saudi Arabia[29], founded in 2017[30], headquartered in Riyadh[31]; uranocircite[32], a mineral species[33]; and Sokolenko[34], an Ukrainian family name[35].