Oman's wildlife coinage program has been running long enough to establish genuine collector continuity, and the Sooty Falcon — a migratory raptor that breeds almost exclusively in the Gulf region and winters in Madagascar — is one of the more ornithologically precise subjects the series has tackled. The species' entire global breeding population is concentrated in a narrow coastal and island corridor that includes Omani territory, which gives the Central Bank an unusually legitimate claim on the subject.
Oman's wildlife coinage program has been running long enough to establish genuine collector continuity, and the Sooty Falcon — a migratory raptor that breeds almost exclusively in the Gulf region and winters in Madagascar — is one of the more ornithologically precise subjects the series has tackled. The species' entire global breeding population is concentrated in a narrow coastal and island corridor that includes Omani territory, which gives the Central Bank an unusually legitimate claim on the subject.