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 LC    American Kestrel* Id (Atlas):
    Falco sparverius

Description (10)
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Other Names (World)
American Kestrel, American Sparrowhawk, Sparrow Hawk(!)

Family
Falconidae (Falcons, Caracaras)

Size
25 - 27 cm
Wingspan: 55 cm

First Described (Guide)
Linnaeus, 1758

Range (Guide)
Anguilla, Antigua and Barbuda, Argentina, Aruba, Bahamas, Barbados, Belize, Bermuda, Bolivia, Brazil, Canada (B) (P), Cayman Islands, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Dominica, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Falkland Islands (Malvinas), French Guiana, Grenada (B), Guadeloupe, Guatemala, Guyana, Haiti, Honduras, Jamaica (B), Martinique, Mexico, Montserrat, Netherlands Antilles, Nicaragua, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Puerto Rico, South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands, St Kitts and Nevis, St Lucia, St Pierre and Miquelon (NB) (P), St Vincent and The Grenadines, Trinidad and Tobago, Turks and Caicos Islands, Uruguay (B), USA (B), Venezuela, Virgin Islands (British) (B) (NB), Virgin Islands (U.S.) (B) (NB).

Vagrant to Denmark, Estonia, Malta, Portugal, United Kingdom.

Population
Estimated population is 6,000,000 (2010).

Status LC
For more information see BirdLife International Species Factsheet.

Voice
Xeno-Canto Sound Files (more (126)...)

 
American Kestrel (Falco sparverius) [XC53347]
     by Felix Vidoz from PN Lago Puelo, Chubut, Argentina (song)

 
American Kestrel (Falco) [XC443812]
     by Paul Marvin from Lake Park (near Lewisville), Denton County, Texas, United States (flight call)

Subspecies
Often considered to form superspecies with Common Kestrel (Falco tinnunculus).

The following 17 subspecies are recognised:

  • sparverius Linnaeus, 1758   -  North America, from Alaska to Newfoundland, and south to western Mexico, except south-eastern USA and coastal western Mexico. Winters south through central America to Panama.
  • paulus (Howe & King, L, 1902)   -  South Carolina to Florida, USA.
  • peninsularis Mearns, 1892   -  Southern Baja California, Sonora and Sinaloa, Mexico.
  • tropicalis (Griscom, 1930)   -  Southern Mexico to northern Honduras.
  • nicaraguensis Howell, TR, 1965   -  Lowland pine savannas in Honduras and Nicaragua.
  • sparverioides Vigors, 1827   -  Cuba and I of Pines; Bahamas.
  • dominicensis Gmelin, JF, 1788   -  Hispaniola.
  • caribaearum Gmelin, JF, 1788   -  Puerto Rico to Grenada.
  • brevipennis (von Berlepsch, 1892)   -  Aruba, Curaí§ao and Bonaire (Netherlands Antilles).
  • isabellinus Swainson, 1838   -  Venezuela to northern Brazil.
  • ochraceus (Cory, 1915)   -  Mountains of eastern Colombia and north-western Venezuela.
  • caucae (Chapman, 1915)   -  Mountains of western Colombia.
  • aequatorialis Mearns, 1892   -  Subtropical northern Ecuador.
  • peruvianus (Cory, 1915)   -  Subtropical south-western Ecuador, Peru and northern Chile.
  • fernandensis (Chapman, 1915)   -  Robinson Crusoe I (Más a Tierra), in Juan Fernández Is, off west-central Chile.
  • cinnamominus Swainson, 1838   -  South-eastern Peru, Chile and Argentina south to Tierra del Fuego.
  • cearae (Cory, 1915)   -  Tablelands from north-eastern Brazil southern and west to eastern Bolivia.



References
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Files:
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