📸 PhotoPhoto: Imran Shah from Islamabad, Pakistan · CC BY-SA 2.0 · Wikimedia Commons Source
Eurasian Hobby
Falco subbuteo (Eurasian Hobby · チゴハヤブサ)
🇰🇷 Class II endangered wildlife (Korea)
💡 Everyday Comparisons for Size, Mass & Speed
- 💡 It sometimes nests on transmission towers or utility poles.
- 💡 Its weight of 0.34 kg is close to the weight of 6 chicken eggs (assuming 1 egg weighs 60 g, Comparison).
- 💡 It has been observed following cars, hunters, or other birds of prey to catch small birds flushed into the air.
Reference standards: coach bus ~12 m, mid-size car ~4.9 m, compact car ~1 t, basketball hoop 3.05 m, credit card 8.56 cm.
Site-computed relative index from recorded values; not a formal scientific metric.
📖 1. Overview
The Eurasian Hobby is an agile small falcon living from Europe to Asia that migrates to south-central Africa for the winter.
🦴 2. Anatomy & Morphology
Its wings are narrow and long like those of a swallow. The upperparts are dark slate-gray to brownish-gray, the underparts are streaked, and the belly and undertail coverts are rufous.
🔍 3. Ecology & Behavior
It catches birds such as larks, swallows, swifts, and finches as well as flying insects such as dragonflies and moths on the wing, and is especially active at dawn and dusk. Rather than building its own nest, it lays 3–4 eggs in old crow nests.
🇰🇷 4. Connection to Korea
In Korea, it is a Class II endangered wildlife species.
📚 Sources & References
- • IUCN Red List LC (2021) — https://www.iucnredlist.org/species/22696460/206270514
- • 멸종위기 야생생물 Ⅱ급 — 국가생물종목록(국립생물자원관) ktsn 120000001575 — https://species.nibr.go.kr/home/mainHome.do?cont_link=009&subMenu=009002&contCd=009002&ktsn=120000001575
- • IUCN Red List category LC — latest assessment at iucnredlist.org
- • Korean protection status: Class II endangered wildlife (Korea)
- • doi.org — avilist.v2026
- • iucnredlist.org — 206270514
- • 국가생물종목록(국립생물자원관) ktsn 120000001575 — https://species.nibr.go.kr/home/mainHome.do?cont_link=009&subMenu=009002&contCd=009002&ktsn=120000001575
- • wikidata.org — Q25876
- • commons.wikimedia.org — File:Eurasian Hobby (Falco subbuteo) (28913995607).jpg
- • peregrinefund.org — eurasian-hobby
- • nie.re.kr — enspc06003v.do
- • Silhouette: PhyloPic — Andy Wilson · CC0 1.0
Recorded dimensions are widely cited representative estimates from public literature and may vary by study or specimen.