Field signs. Spinnaya side blackish-brown, white or ventral ohristaya with narrow longitudinal pestrinami. The tail is gray with cross bars. Young birds with bright spots or kaemkami feathers atop his head. The bottom side of the body they ohristo-fox or a fox-brown. The length of the wing in males 460-507 mm in females - 485-520 mm (Ivanov, Shtegman, 1978). Distribution. Mountains of Central Asia, north as far as Mts. Karatau (in the Tien Shan missing) (Ivanov, Shtegman, 1978). Africa (excluding Sahara and the humid equatorial forests). South of Eurasia from the Pyrenees to the east of China (Stepanyan, 1990, 2003). References. |