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Falco deiroleucus Temminck, 1825 – Orange-breasted Falcon, halcón pecho rufo. This species may have occurred at Palenque prior to regional deforestation, but it is unlikely to occur there now: there are few, if any, valid records for Mexico in the past 2 decades (Baker et al., 2000). Nonetheless, this species was reported at Palenque in 1983, 2003, 2005, and 2006. In our judgment, each of these reports can be referred instead to F. rufigularis petoensis, the northern subspecies of the Bat Falcon that often has the breast orange (Howell and Whittaker, 1995). Locations nearest Palenque that support (small) populations of F. deiroleucus are Tikal National Park in Guatemala and, especially, the Mountain Pine Ridge area of the Maya Mountains of eastern Belize (Baker et al., 2000).

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