{"id":25422,"date":"2012-11-05T14:33:46","date_gmt":"2012-11-05T13:33:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/galleries\/large-landbirds\/gyrfalcon-falco-rusticolus\/"},"modified":"2026-09-11T09:15:00","modified_gmt":"2026-09-11T08:15:00","slug":"gyrfalcon-falco-rusticolus","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/galleries\/large-landbirds\/gyrfalcon-falco-rusticolus\/","title":{"rendered":"Gyr Falcon Falco rusticolus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Gyrfalcon or Falco rusticolus, also spelled gerfalcon, is the largest of all falcon species. The Gyrfalcon breeds on Arctic coasts and islands of North America, Europe and Asia. It is mainly resident, but some Gyrfalcons disperse more widely after the breeding season, or in winter.<\/p>\n<p>Factsheet: Gyr Falcon\u00a0<i>Falco\u00a0rusticolus<\/i>\u00a0<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"ngg-galleryoverview\" id=\"ngg-gallery-294-25422\">\n\n\n\n    \t<!-- Thumbnails -->\n\t\t\n\t\t<div id=\"ngg-image-2190\" class=\"ngg-gallery-thumbnail-box nggvote-33\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"ngg-gallery-thumbnail\" >\n\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-content\/gallery\/gyrfalcon-falco-rusticolus\/gyrfalcon-falco-rusticolus-3.jpg\" title=\"Gyrfalcon (Falco rusticolus) at Pfaender Adlerwarte, Vorarlberg, Austria\" data-wpel-link=\"internal\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" title=\"Gyrfalcon (Falco rusticolus) at Pfaender Adlerwarte, Vorarlberg, Austria\" alt=\"Gyrfalcon (Falco rusticolus) (03)\" src=\"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-content\/gallery\/gyrfalcon-falco-rusticolus\/thumbs\/thumbs_gyrfalcon-falco-rusticolus-3.jpg\" width=\"291\" height=\"300\" \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t<span>Gyrfalcon (Falco rusticolus) (03)<\/span>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n \t\n\t\t<div id=\"ngg-image-2189\" class=\"ngg-gallery-thumbnail-box nggvote-33\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"ngg-gallery-thumbnail\" >\n\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-content\/gallery\/gyrfalcon-falco-rusticolus\/gyrfalcon-falco-rusticolus-2.jpg\" title=\"Gyrfalcon (Falco rusticolus) at Pfaender Adlerwarte, Vorarlberg, Austria\" data-wpel-link=\"internal\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" title=\"Gyrfalcon (Falco rusticolus) at Pfaender Adlerwarte, Vorarlberg, Austria\" alt=\"Gyrfalcon (Falco rusticolus) (02)\" src=\"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-content\/gallery\/gyrfalcon-falco-rusticolus\/thumbs\/thumbs_gyrfalcon-falco-rusticolus-2.jpg\" width=\"294\" height=\"300\" \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t<span>Gyrfalcon (Falco rusticolus) (02)<\/span>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n \t\n\t\t<div id=\"ngg-image-2188\" class=\"ngg-gallery-thumbnail-box nggvote-33\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"ngg-gallery-thumbnail\" >\n\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-content\/gallery\/gyrfalcon-falco-rusticolus\/gyrfalcon-falco-rusticolus-1.jpg\" title=\"Gyrfalcon (Falco rusticolus) at Pfaender Adlerwarte, Vorarlberg, Austria\" data-wpel-link=\"internal\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" title=\"Gyrfalcon (Falco rusticolus) at Pfaender Adlerwarte, Vorarlberg, Austria\" alt=\"Gyrfalcon (Falco rusticolus) (01)\" src=\"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-content\/gallery\/gyrfalcon-falco-rusticolus\/thumbs\/thumbs_gyrfalcon-falco-rusticolus-1.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"298\" \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t<span>Gyrfalcon (Falco rusticolus) (01)<\/span>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\t\t<br style=\"clear: both\" \/>\n\t\n \t\n\t<!-- Pagination -->\n \t<div class=\"ngg-clear\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Gyrfalcon or Falco rusticolus, also spelled gerfalcon, is the largest of all falcon species. The Gyrfalcon breeds on Arctic coasts and islands of North America, Europe and Asia. It is mainly resident, but some Gyrfalcons disperse more widely after the breeding season, or in winter. Factsheet: Gyr Falcon\u00a0Falco\u00a0rusticolus\u00a0 &nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1178,"featured_media":828004,"parent":17615,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"tags":[2035,2034],"class_list":["post-25422","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-falco-rusticolus","tag-gyrfalcon"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/25422","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1178"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25422"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/25422\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/17615"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/828004"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25422"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25422"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}