| Lined Forest Falcon | |
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| Conservation status | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Aves |
| Order: | Falconiformes |
| Family: | Falconidae |
| Genus: | Micrastur |
| Species: | M. gilvicollis |
| Binomial name | |
| Micrastur gilvicollis (Vieillot, 1817) |
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The Lined Forest Falcon (Micrastur gilvicollis) is a species of bird of prey in the Falconidae family. It is endemic to humid forest in the western and northern Amazon Basin. Populations found in the south-eastern Amazon Basin (south of the Amazon River and east of the Madeira River) were formerly included in this species, but were described as a new species, the Cryptic Forest Falcon, in 2003. Together with the Plumbeous Forest Falcon of the Chocó, they are an example of a cryptic species complex. While adults of all three species have the deep orange-red facial skin and cere that separates them from the sympatric Barred Forest Falcon, only the Lined Forest Falcon has two white bars in the tail (in addition to a narrow white tail-tip).