Laughing Falcon
Herpetotheres cachinnans
IUCN: Least Concern
Taxonomy
- Order
- Falconiformes
- Family
- Falconidae
- Genus
- Herpetotheres
- eBird Code
- laufal1
Vocalizations
Jackson Frost · CC_BY_4_0
Dan MacNeal · CC_BY_4_0
Helio Lourencini · CC_BY_4_0
Dan MacNeal · CC_BY_4_0
Martin Vallejos · CC_BY_4_0
Dan MacNeal · CC_BY_4_0
Subspecies (2)
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Herpetotheres cachinnans cachinnans
northern Mexico (south from southern Sonora and San Luis Potosí) southward through Central America to northeastern Panama and northern Colombia and, east of the Andes, southward to Paraguay, northeastern Argentina, and southern and eastern Brazil
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Herpetotheres cachinnans fulvescens
far eastern Panama (Darién) southward to northwestern Peru (south to Lambayeque)
Data Sources
Bird images and sounds sourced from GBIF, contributed by citizen scientists worldwide under Creative Commons licenses.
Taxonomy data from AviList 2025.