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When to see Pygmy Falcon in Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park
Pygmy Falcon are most active during the day (06:00 to 18:00).
This is Pygmy Falcon's general behavior. Once enough sightings are logged in Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park, this page also shows when they're actually seen here.
About the Pygmy Falcon
Africa's smallest bird of prey, a diminutive white-bellied raptor of dry bush and Kalahari savanna. Males have a grey back and females a chestnut back, with white false "eye spots" on the nape. It hunts reptiles, insects and small birds from a high perch, and is an obligate associate of sociable weaver colonies, roosting and breeding almost exclusively in the vacant chambers of their giant communal nests.
How to identify the Pygmy Falcon
Extremely small size (about 20 cm), white underparts, and near-constant association with the giant multichambered nests of sociable weavers are the clearest identification cues
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