English: Eurasian Hobby, Northern Hobby
Russian: Чеглок
German: Baumfalke
French: Faucon hobereau
Mongolian:  Шууман шонхор
Japanese: チゴハヤブサ (Chigo-Hayabusa)

Body Length: 28-34 cm
Wing span: 68-84 cm

Breeding visitor
Breeding season: June-August

Egg number: 2-3
Egg colour: Yellowish brown densely speckled with reddish-brown
Brood: 1 per year

Global status: Least concern
Regional status: Least Concern

Food: Small rodents, passeriness, lizards, rarely amphibians and insects.

Habitat: Breeding pairs do no build their own nests. They prefer to select deserted nests of Black-billed Magpies, Carrion Crows and Daurian Jackdaws in trees of forests, forest steppe and forested river valleys. On migration, they occur singly or in very loose groups of 3-4 individuals and hunt on passerines and voles in open steppe and mountain steppe.