“…Worldwide, the genus Falco Linnaeus, 1758 contains 38 species (Myers et al, 2009); in Iraq, a total of ten species and subspecies including: Saker Falcon F. cherrug; Lanner Falcon F. biarmicus; Peregrine Falcon F. peregrinus; F. p. (brookei); Barbary Falcon F. p. (pelegrinoides); Eurasian Hobby F. subbuteo; Merlin F. columbarius; Red Footed Falcon F. vespertinus; Lesser Kestrel F. naumanni; Common Kestrel F. tinnunculus are recorded (Cumming,1918;Donald, 1919;Ticehurst et al, 1922;Meinertzhagen, 1914Moor and Boswell, 1956;Allouse,1960;Scott and Carp, 1982;Scott, 1993;Evans, 1994;Scott, 1995;Abed, 2007;Salim et al, 2009;Porter et al, 2010;Ararat et al, 2011;Al-Sheikhly, 2011;Al-Sheikhly, 2012a;Lahoney et al, 2013;Fazaa et al, 2017;Al-Sheikhly and Al-Azawi, 2019).…”