American Kestrel Falco sparverius [Linnaeus, 1758] |
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Order:
Accipitriformes
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Family: Falconidae |
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BTO Codes:
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EURING No: 3050 | |
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Number in Britain:
Fewer than 20 records
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Status in UK:
(A) Accidental
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Subspecies:
sparverius recorded in Britain (of 17 subsp. in the world)
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Length:
20 cm
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Wingspan: 55 cm |
Weight:
M/F: 120 g
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Scientific name from:
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L.: falco=falcom (from falcis=sickle, ref hooked talons) and L.: sparverius=sparrowhawk |
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World Distribution:
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North & Central America, South America except Amazonia |
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Habitat:
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Desert, scrub, farmland, towns |
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Diet:
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Arthropods and small vertebrates |
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In winter in many southern parts of the range, female and male birds use different habitats, the females migrate south first and occupy open areas, leaving the males to settle in more wooded areas. |
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Records and Distribution |
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First Record:
Fair Isle, 1976
(Taylor, A.M. 1981. British Birds 74:199-203.)
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Total Number of Records (1950-2007):
2
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Summary of Records by Year
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Most Likely to Occur in:
Too few records
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Most Recent County Records:
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Scotland:
Shetland
(1976),
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North-east England:
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North-west England:
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English Midlands:
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Eastern England:
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South-east England:
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South-west England:
Cornwall
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Information provided by BirdGuides and BBRC |
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Other Names |
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| Gaelic: | Welsh: Cudyll Coch America |
| Danish: Amerikansk tårnfalk | Dutch: Amerikanse Torenvalk |
| Finnish: Amerikantuulihaukka | French: Crécerelle d'Amérique |
| German: Buntfalke | Hungarian: Amerikai vércse |
| Icelandic: Skrúðfálki | Irish: |
| Italian: Gheppio americano | Norwegian: Spurvefalk |
| Polish: Pustulka amerykanska | Portuguese: Peneireiro-americano |
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Spanish:
Cernícalo americano
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Swedish: Amerikansk tornfalk |
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Wikipedia entry
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BirdLife species page
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Recent sightings and information from BirdGuides
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All About Birds (Cornell Lab of Ornithology)
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Gough, G.A. et al. (1998) Patuxent Bird Identification Infocenter
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