Range Description

Falco buboisi is known only from subfossil bones collected by Bertrand Kervazo in the Grottes des Premiers Français on Réunion (to France) in 1974². The only historical record of small falcons is of the emerillons reported by Dubois in 1671-2 as distinct from pieds jaunes and papangue, both of which probably refer to Réunion Harrier Circus maillardi¹. The specimens are deposited in the Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris².