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Conservationists appalled at Red-footed Falcon massacre
08-10-2007

52 Red-footed Falcon –listed as Near-Threatened by BirdLife- have been found shot at Phasouri in Cyprus, a well-known poaching 'black spot'. The finding has appalled conservationists throughout Europe, and has led to BirdLife Cyprus renewing calls for action on the issue.
On the morning of Friday 5 October, farm workers at the Phasouri citrus plantations found the Red-footed Falcons laying dead or wounded among the orange trees. Two piles of empty shotgun cartridges lay at the centre of the massacre site. Of the 52 falcons recovered, six were wounded and forty-six had died.....more

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Griffiths, Carole S. (1999): Phylogeny of the Falconidae inferred from molecular and morphological data
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