page_title: Laggar falcon
section_title: Gallery
hierarchical_section_title: Laggar falcon / Gallery
caption_attribution_description: English: In this pair of Laggar Falcons, left one is an adult male with darker head and the other one is an adult female. Her head is pale compared to that male. Such variations are seen usually.
context_page_description: The laggar falcon, also known as the jugger is a mid-sized bird of prey which occurs in the Indian subcontinent from extreme southeastern Iran, southeastern Afghanistan, Pakistan, through India, Nepal, Bhutan, Bangladesh and northwestern Myanmar.
  It resembles the lanner falcon but is darker overall, and has blackish "trousers". Fledglings have an almost entirely dark underside, and first-year subadult birds still retain much dark on the belly.
  This species belongs to a close-knit complex of falcons known as hierofalcons. In this group, there is ample evidence for rampant hybridization and incomplete lineage sorting which confounds analyses of DNA sequence data to a massive extent; molecular studies with small sample sizes can simply not be expected to yield reliable conclusions in the entire hierofalcon group. The radiation of the entire living diversity of hierofalcons seems to have taken place in the Eemian interglacial at the start of the Late Pleistocene, a mere 130,000-115,000 years ago; the laggar falcon represents a lineage that arrived at its present range out of eastern Africa by way of the Arabian Peninsula which during that time had a more humid climate than today.
caption: Laggar falcon pair. The darker-headed one on the left is an adult male and the paler-headed one is an adult female. Such variations are not unusual.
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