Eurasian Hobby

Streamlined long-winged falcon. Note gray upperparts with plain tail, boldly streaked underparts with rusty leggings and vent. Swift-like; flight more graceful and aerodynamic than Eurasian Kestrel. Compare with larger, stockier, shorter-tailed Peregrine Falcon. Favors open woodland, heathland, and farmland with stands of trees; often hunts over nearby water bodies and marshes. Hunts in the air, catching dragonflies, swallows, and other birds, which it sometimes eats on the wing.

The Eurasian hobby lives in open areas with trees, such as grasslands, wetlands, farmland, and open woodlands. I

In Sri Lanka, a Eurasian Hobby's diet primarily consists of flying insects like dragonflies, large moths, and other aerial insects, with occasional small birds like swallows and swifts, which it catches on the wing due to its exceptional flying speed and agility; similar to its diet in other regions around the world.