Merlin

Taxonomy

Order

Falconiformes

Family

Falconidae

Genus

Falco

eBird Code

merlin

Subspecies (9)

• Falco columbarius aesalon

  breeds northern Eurasia (Faroe Islands to central Siberia); winters to northern Africa

• Falco columbarius columbarius

  North America (except for Pacific coast and Great Plains)

• Falco columbarius insignis

  Siberia (Yenisey River to Kolyma River)

• Falco columbarius lymani

  mountains of central Asia

• Falco columbarius pacificus

  northeastern Asia and Sakhalin

• Falco columbarius pallidus

  steppes of Asia (Aral Sea to Altai Mountains)

• Falco columbarius richardsonii

  Great Plains of North America (central Alberta to Wyoming)

• Falco columbarius subaesalon

  Iceland

• Falco columbarius suckleyi

  Alaska and British Columbia to northern Washington