#1150 · 🐦 birds

Lesser Kestrel

🇳🇱 Kleine Torenvalk ·Falco naumanni

LCleast concern 🐦 Birds 📍 in Europe, not in NL

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what is it?

The lesser kestrel ( Falco naumanni ) is a small falcon. This species breeds from the Mediterranean across Afghanistan and Central Asia, to China and Mongolia. It is a summer migrant, wintering in Africa and Pakistan and sometimes even to India and Iraq. It is rare north of its breeding range, and declining in its European range. The genus name derives from Late Latin falx , falcis , a sickle, referencing the claws of the bird, and the species name...

base stats

NL sightings 0iNaturalist, research grade
worldwide 7,169iNaturalist observations
weight 170 gadult, up to
threat LCleast concern

Bars compare against all animals on log scales: up to 300,000 Dutch and 600,000 worldwide sightings (the most-seen species), 150 t (blue whale), 30 m and 400 years (Greenland shark).

fun facts

No confirmed wild sightings in the Netherlands on iNaturalist: you'd have to travel for this one.
7,169 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
Weighs only about 170 g.
Scientifically named by Ernst Fleischer in 1818 (208 years ago).