Description:
Length: 43 – 51 cm.
Adult male: Head plumage gray, wing feather tips black, flanks grayish-white, body grayish-white.
Female and juvenile: Plumage barred black and white: tail bands distinctly white and pale black. Facial disc similar to owls; underwing barring and tail barring prominent, white and grayish-brown. Upper breast more heavily streaked with black compared to the Eurasian hobby ( Falco subbuteo).
Distribution:
Southern Vietnam.
Status:
A winter visitor, rare, observed up to an altitude of 1,500 meters.
Habitat:
Open areas.