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Common kestrel falco tinnunculus🦅

Photo: Andreas Trepte · CC BY-SA 2.5

SpeciesFalconiformesFalconidae
Birds

🦅Common Kestrel

Falco tinnunculus Linnaeus, 1758

Der Turmfalke (Falco tinnunculus) ist der am häufigsten vorkommende Falke Mitteleuropas. Der Öffentlichkeit ist er relativ vertraut, da er sich auch Städte und Stadträume als Lebensraum erobert hat und öfter beim „Rüttelflug“ zu beobachten ist (daher auch die verbreitete Bezeichnung Rüttler – nicht zu verwechseln wiederum mit dem Rötelfalken). 2007 war der Turmfalke in Deutschland und 2008 in der Schweiz „Vogel des Jahres“.

Text: Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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Measurements
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≈ 1/340th of your weight
Conservation status
LCLeast concern

IUCN Red List assessment, 2021.

Population trendDecreasing
Key measurements
Body mass
0.18 kg
Body length
not recorded
Shoulder height
not recorded
Top speed
not recorded
Bite force
not recorded
Maximum lifespan
24 years
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Facts and figures

Everything we know about the Common Kestrel

Typical adult figures. Where a value is an estimate rather than a measurement, it says so.

Body mass
0.18 kg
AVONET
Other figures ↓

Source: AVONET · v1.1 (Tobias et al. 2022) · CC BY 4.0

By sex

  • Male167 kgWikidataQ26490
  • Female201 kgWikidataQ26490

Figures vary

  • 0.18 kgAnAgeAnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR)data quality: acceptable
Tail length
0.15 m
AVONET
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Source: AVONET · v1.1 (Tobias et al. 2022) · CC BY 4.0

Wing length
0.24 m
AVONET
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Source: AVONET · v1.1 (Tobias et al. 2022) · CC BY 4.0

Beak length
0.02 m
AVONET
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Source: AVONET · v1.1 (Tobias et al. 2022) · CC BY 4.0

Tarsus length
0.04 m
AVONET
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Source: AVONET · v1.1 (Tobias et al. 2022) · CC BY 4.0

Maximum lifespan
24 years
AnAge
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data quality: acceptable

Source: AnAge · AnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR) · CC BY 3.0

Trophic level
Carnivore
AVONET
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Source: AVONET · v1.1 (Tobias et al. 2022) · CC BY 4.0

Habitat
Shrubland
AVONET
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Source: AVONET · v1.1 (Tobias et al. 2022) · CC BY 4.0

Lifestyle
Aerial
AVONET
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Source: AVONET · v1.1 (Tobias et al. 2022) · CC BY 4.0

Volume l
0.2 Laverage
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Body mass at ~1.0 kg/L, the density of vertebrate tissue.

average = a mean across sexes or species in a group.

Not recorded for Common Kestrel yet: body length, shoulder height, top speed, bite force.

Where it sits

Family tree

  1. kingdomAnimalia
  2. ›phylumChordata
  3. ›classAves
  4. ›orderFalconiformes
  5. ›familyFalconidae
  6. ›genusFalco
  7. ›speciesFalco tinnunculus
Full lineage
  1. classBirds · Aves
  2. orderFalconiformes
  3. familyFalconidae
  4. genusFalco
All 12 branches ↓
  1. kingdomMetazoa
  2. phylumChordata
  3. subphylumCraniata
  4. subphylumVertebrata
  5. superclassGnathostomata
  6. superclassSarcopterygii
  7. superclassTetrapoda
  8. orderSauria
  9. classBirds · Aves
  10. orderFalconiformes
  11. familyFalconidae
  12. genusFalco
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Closest relative on this site
🦅 Eurasian Hobby — last shared an ancestor ≈ 14 million years ago.
In other languages
torenvalk (nl), Faucon crécerelle (fr), 红隼 (zh), Pustułka zwyczajna (pl), Falco tinnunculus (es), vörös vércse (hu) … and 27 more languages

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