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Habitat

The Saker Falcon is predominantly a bird of open landscapes, occupying a diverse range of habitats from agricultural land, steppe, forest steppe, deserts and semi-deserts, mountains, foothills and montane plateaus. The image gallery below gives some examples of these habitats throughout Europe and Asia.
 
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European Grassland Habitat Ukraine © Andrew Dixon Anatolian Steppe Turkey © Andrew Dixon Asian Forest Steppe Kazakhstan © Andrew Dixon Asian Forest Steppe Mongolia © Andrew Dixon Asian Mountain Steppe China © Andrew Dixon Asian Steppe Mongolia © Andrew Dixon Asian Plateau Grasslands China © Andrew Dixon Asian Plateau Grasslands China © Andrew Dixon Asian Mountain steppe - Kazakhstan. © Tomas Kunca Asian desert semi-desert - China. © Andrew Dixon Asian desert semi-desert - Kazakhstan. © Tomas Kunca European farmland - Ukraine. © Andrew Dixon European Flood forests - Croatia. ©Andrew Dixon Hungarian grassland. © Andrew Dixon European farmland - Hungary. © Andrew Dixon European Upland-Mountain habitat - Bulgaria. © Dimitar Ragyov