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English Lesser Kestrel
Scientific (Falco naumanni)
Order FALCONIFORMES
Family (Latin) Falconidae
Family (English) Caracaras, Falcons
Other name(s) Faucon crécerellette, Cernícalo Primilla
Regions PAL
Breeding Range Subregions s Europe and nw Africa to n China
Nonbreeding Range Subregions AF
Countries (BETA) map Nepal,Somalia,Guinea,Mozambique,Czech Republic,Ethiopia,Equatorial Guinea,South Africa,Portugal,Nigeria,Japan,Turkey,Tunisia,Morocco,Malawi,Maldives,Mali,Croatia,Slovenia,Israel,India - mainland,Botswana,Namibia,Malta,Algeria,Laos,Azerbaijan,Bulgaria,Lebanon,Iraq,Singapore,Niger,Ukraine,Romania,Cameroon,Greece,Burkina Faso,Palestine,Uzbekistan,France,United Arab Emirates,Libya,Rwanda,Syria,Benin,Mongolia,Hungary,Zambia,Liechtenstein,Pakistan,Sri Lanka,China,Sierra Leone,Gibraltar,Western Sahara,Eritrea,Angola,Ivory Coast,Armenia,Saudi Arabia,Guinea-Bissau,Oman,Turkmenistan,Qatar,Bosnia and Herzegovina,Ghana,Djibouti,Slovakia,Tajikistan,Poland,Togo,Moldova,Spain,Gabon,Kenya,Egypt,Macedonia,Switzerland,Lithuania,Cyprus,Iran,Mauritania,Kyrgyzstan,Russia,Finland,Tanzania,Chad,Austria,Kazakhstan,Jordan,Lesotho,Uganda,Italy,Zimbabwe,Yemen,Gambia,Liberia,Myanmar,Burundi,Bahrain,Kuwait,Georgia,Sudan,Afghanistan,Denmark,Senegal,Albania,Central African Republic,Democratic Republic of Congo,Congo,South Sudan,Montenegro,
Subspecies Monotypic
IUCN Status Code LC (Birdlife factsheet )
Described by Fleischer, JG, 1818
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German Rötelfalke
French Faucon crécerellette
Chinese 黄爪隼
Japanese ヒメチョウゲンボウ
Russian Степная пустельга
Spanish Cernícalo primilla
Portuguese peneireiro-das-torres
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Breeding Range Codes
AF Africa (entire continent rather than south of Sahara)
AN Antarctica
AO Atlantic Ocean
AU Australasia (Wallacea (Indonesian islands east of Wallace's line), New Guinea and its islands, Australia, New Zealand and its subantarctic islands, the Solomons, New Caledonia, and Vanuatu)
PAL Eurasia (Europe, Asia from the Middle East through central Asia north of the Himalayas, Siberia and northern China to Japan)
IO Indian Ocean
LA Latin America (Middle and South America)
MA Middle America (Mexico through Panama)
NA North America (includes the Caribbean)
NO Northern oceans
OR Oriental Region (South Asia from Pakistan to Taiwan, plus Southeast Asia, the Philippines, and Greater Sundas)
PO Pacific Ocean
SA South America
SO Southern oceans
TO Temperate oceans
TrO Tropical oceans
Worldwide Worldwide
IUCN Status Codes
EX Extinct
EW Extinct in the wild
CR Critically Endangered
EN Endangered
VU Vulnerable
NT Near Threatened
LC Least Concern
DD Data deficient
NE Not evaluated
PE Probably extinct (informal)
PEW Probably extinct in the wild (informal)