Peregrine/Barabary or hybrid? (1 Viewer)

[Helsinki Birder]

Peregrine/Barbary or hybrid?

Any ideas on this Falcon? Forgive poor shots. Twas murky.
Note the rufous head and cheek markings. There is some shadowing making the upper parts darker than they were in life.
The breast was remarkably clean white, with barring strongest on the flanks.
My own conlusion is Barbary falcon, as i could not see any real Non-Barbary features. Note what appears to be the remains of jesses/rings on the legs.

Pariah

 

[Fast_falkon]

I agree with barbary. same reasons as you stated

 

[luke]

i'd say thats a Lanner?

 

[Helsinki Birder]

Definitely not lanner.
Good flight views (no shots of this unfortunately) showed clean underwings, no trace of a dark covert bar. It was down to a perry/ Barb or a hybrid of some sort.Im not saying there couldnt be lanner in the mix somewhere, but there was little or no pro lanner features other than the rufous head markings.

Pariah

 

[keithyed]

i would tend to go for Lanner as well.I think there is too much barring for Barbary.
Its a pity the pics are not a bit better.

keith

 

[luke]

Its also seems to have quite a long tailed which would pro lanner aswell.

 

[Jane Turner]

Looks very like a bird that I saw here on the beach on 2000. I never got to the bottom of what that was either! Lanner/Peregine Peregrine/Merlin were not ruled out, but fem Barbary remained my best guess.

 

[apbarr]

This could be one of any number of hybrids between falcon species eg I've seen gyr x merlin advertised which didn't look like any of the parents