American Kestrel / Falco sparverius
American Kestrel bird information | Values |
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Conservation status | LC - Least concern |
Synonyms | Killy Hawk, American Sparrow Hawk, Dixie Kestrel, Rusty-crowned falcon, Sparrow Hawk, Mouse Hawk, American Sparrow-Hawk |
Old latin name for bird | Cerchneis sparveria, Falco sparvarius |
Order | Falcons / Falconiformes |
Family | Caracaras, Falcons / Falconidae |
Genus | Falco |
Breeding region | Middle America, North America, South America |
Breeding subregion | widespread |
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Related species

Reunion Kestrel

Black Falcon

Grey Falcon

Laggar Falcon

Amur Falcon

Rock Kestrel

Lanner Falcon

Peregrine Falcon

Mauritius Kestrel
Where to see American Kestrel
- Anguilla
- Antigua and Barbuda
- Argentina
- Aruba
- Bahamas
- Barbados
- Belize
- Bermuda
- Bolivia
- Bonaire, Sint Eustatius and Saba
- Brazil
- Canada
- Cayman Islands
- Chile
- Colombia
- Costa Rica
- Cuba
- Curaçao
- Denmark
- Dominica
- Dominican Republic
- Ecuador
- El Salvador
- Falkland Islands (Malvinas)
- France
- Germany
- Grenada
- Guadeloupe
- Guatemala
- Guyana
- Haiti
- Honduras
- Ireland
- Jamaica
- Malta
- Martinique
- Mexico
- Montserrat
- Netherlands
- Nicaragua
- Panama
- Paraguay
- Peru
- Portugal
- Puerto Rico
- Saint Barthélemy
- Saint Kitts and Nevis
- Saint Lucia
- Saint Martin (French part)
- Saint Pierre and Miquelon
- Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
- Sint Maarten (Dutch part)
- Suriname
- Trinidad and Tobago
- Turks and Caicos Islands
- United Kingdom
- United States Minor Outlying Islands
- United States of America
- Uruguay
- Venezuela
- Virgin Islands (British)
- Virgin Islands (U.S.)
American Kestrel subspecies (17)
Subspecies | Breeding subregion | Nonbreeding subregion | Extinct |
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Falco sparverius aequatorialis | n Ecuador | - | No |
Falco sparverius brevipennis | Aruba, Curaçao, Bonaire (Netherlands Antilles) | - | No |
Falco sparverius caribaearum | Puerto Rico to Grenada (West Indies) | - | No |
Falco sparverius caucae | w Colombia | - | No |
Falco sparverius cearae | s Brazil | - | No |
Falco sparverius cinnamominus | se Peru to Paraguay, se Brazil (Rio Grande do Sul) and Tierra del Fuego | - | No |
Falco sparverius dominicensis | Hispaniola | - | No |
Falco sparverius fernandensis | Alejandro Selkirk and Juan Fernandez Is. (Chile) | - | No |
Falco sparverius isabellinus | e Venezuela, the Guianas and n Brazil | - | No |
Falco sparverius nicaraguensis | nw Honduras, Nicaragua | - | No |
Falco sparverius ochraceus | e Colombia and nw Venezuela | - | No |
Falco sparverius paulus | se USA | - | No |
Falco sparverius peninsularis | nw Mexico | - | No |
Falco sparverius peruvianus | sw Ecuador, Peru and n Chile | - | No |
Falco sparverius sparverioides | Bahamas and Cuba | - | No |
Falco sparverius sparverius | Alaska and Canada through the USA to w Mexico | to Panama | No |
Falco sparverius tropicalis | s Mexico to n Honduras | - | No |
Translation
Language | Translation |
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Afrikaans | Amerikaanse toringvalk |
Azerbaijani | Amerika muymulu |
Basque | Belatz amerikar |
Belarusian | Амерыканская пустальга |
Bulgarian | Американска ветрушка |
Catalan | xoriguer americà |
Chinese | 美洲隼 |
Chinese (Traditional) | 美洲隼 |
Cree | pîhpîkisîs, otsheepamosees |
Croatian | američka vjetruša |
Czech | poštolka pestrá, poštolka vrabčí |
Danish | Amerikansk Tårnfalk |
Dutch | Amerikaanse Torenvalk |
Esperanto | Amerika turfalko |
Estonian | ameerika tuuletallaja |
Faroese | Skartsmyril |
Finnish | amerikantuulihaukka |
French | Crécerelle d'Amérique, Crécerelle d’Amérique, Faucon des moineaux, Crécerelle des moineaux, Faucon d'Amérique, Crécerelle américaine |
Frisian | Amerikaanske wikel |
Galician | Peneireiro americano |
German | Sperlingsfalke, Buntfalke |
Greek | Αμερικανικό Κιρκινέζι, Στρoυθoκιρκίvεζo |
Guarani | Kiri kiri'i |
Hebrew | בז אמריקאי, בז אמריקני |
Hungarian | tarka vércse |
Icelandic | Skrúðfálki |
Irish | Pocaire Meiriceánach |
Italian | Gheppio americano |
Japanese | アメリカチョウゲンボウ |
Kazakh | Америка күйкентайы |
Latvian | raibais piekūns |
Lithuanian | amerikinis pelėsakalis |
Macedonian | Американска ветрушка |
Maltese | Spanjulett Amerikan |
Manx | Stannair ruy Americaanagh |
Northern Sami | Amerihkábieggafálli |
Norwegian | spurvefalk, Spurvefalk |
Norwegian Nynorsk | Sporvefalk |
Polish | pustułka amerykańska, pustulka amerykanska |
Portuguese | peneireiro-americano, quiriquiri / peneireiro-americano, gavião-rapina, Quiriquiri, Gavião-quiriquiri, gavião-quiri-quiri, falcão-quiriquiri, gaviãozinho |
Romanian | Vânturel american |
Russian | Воробьиная пустельга, Американская пустельга, Пустельга воробьиная, Пустельга американская |
Serbian | Američka vetruška |
Slovak | sokol pestrý |
Slovenian | ameriška postovka |
Spanish | Halconcito colorado, cernícalo american, Cernícalo de Juan Fernández, Halcón Común, Halconcito, Falcón Común, Cernícalo primito, Cerniícal Americano, Salnícalo, Halconcito Común, Cernícalo americano, Cernícalo, Lis lis, Cuyaya |
Swedish | Amerikansk tornfalk, sparvfalk |
Tatar | чыпчык торымтае |
Turkish | Amerika Kerkenezı, Ala Kerkenez |
Ukrainian | боривітер американський |
Welsh | Cudyll coch America |