Common kestrel

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Common kestrel
Adult male Falco tinnunculus tinnunculus
Adult Female Falco tinnunculus tinnunculus from Tal Chhapar Sanctuary, Churu, Rajasthan, India
Conservation status
Least Concern  (IUCN 3.1)[1]
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Aves
Order:	Falconiformes
Family:	Falconidae
Genus:	Falco
Species:	F. tinnunculus
Binomial name
Falco tinnunculus Linnaeus, 1758
Subspecies
About 10, see text
Global map of eBird reports of F. t. tinnunculus   Year-Round Range   Summer Range   Winter Range
Synonyms
Falco rupicolus Daudin, 1800 (but see text) Falco tinnunculus interstictus (lapsus)

The common kestrel (Falco tinnunculus), also known as the European kestrel, Eurasian kestrel or Old World kestrel, is a species of predatory bird belonging to the kestrel group of the falcon family Falconidae. In the United Kingdom, where no other kestrel species commonly occurs, it is generally just called "kestrel".^[2]

This species occurs over a large native range. It is widespread in Europe, Asia and Africa, as well as occasionally reaching the east coast of North America.^[3] It has colonized a few oceanic islands, but vagrant individuals are generally rare; in the whole of Micronesia for example, the species was only recorded twice each on Guam and Saipan in the Marianas.^[4][5][6]