TY - JOUR AU - Dr. Bryson, Ursula PY - 2022/03/14 Y2 - 2024/03/29 TI - Eurasian Hobby : A hunter of dusk or dawn? JF - Afrotropical Bird Biology: Journal of the Natural History of African Birds JA - ABB VL - 2 IS - SE - DO - 10.15641/abb.v2i.1078 UR - https://journals.uct.ac.za/index.php/ABB/article/view/v2_1 SP - AB - <p>The European literature considers the Eurasian Hobby <em>Falco subbuteo</em> as active during the day, while in the southern African literature, the species is - often exclusively - called a hunter of dusk and dawn. This note tracks down the three original sources on which this misunderstanding is based and reviews evidence for the mainly diurnal activity of this species based on European standard literature.</p> ER -