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American Kestrel (Falco sparverius) (14547482002)🦅

Photo: Gregory "Slobirdr" Smith · CC BY-SA 2.0

SpeciesFalconiformesFalconidae
Birds

🦅American Kestrel

Falco sparverius Linnaeus, 1758

De Amerikaanse torenvalk (Falco sparverius) is een kleine roofvogel uit de familie van de valkachtigen (Falconidae) die in grote delen van Noord- en Zuid-Amerika voorkomt. Op de ABC-eilanden wordt hij Kinikini genoemd en op Sint Eustatius Killy-killy. De wetenschappelijke naam van de soort werd in 1758 gepubliceerd door Carl Linnaeus. Zijn uiterlijk vertoont overeenkomst met de torenvalk (Falco tinnunculus), maar deze laatste soort is een stuk groter. De Amerikaanse valk is de kleinste valk van Noord-Amerika.

Text: Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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Photos
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Measurements
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vs you
≈ 1/540th of your weight
Conservation status
LCLeast concern

IUCN Red List assessment, 2025.

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

Everything we know about the American Kestrel

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

Body mass
0.11 kg
AVONET
Other figures ↓

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

Figures vary

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

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

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

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

Maximum lifespan
17 years
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data quality: acceptable

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

Gestation
29 days
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data quality: acceptable

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

Litter size
about 5
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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
Grassland
AVONET
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Source: AVONET · v1.1 (Tobias et al. 2022) · CC BY 4.0

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

Volume l
0.1 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 American Kestrel yet: body length, shoulder height, top speed, bite force.

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Family tree

  1. kingdomAnimalia
  2. ›phylumChordata
  3. ›classAves
  4. ›orderFalconiformes
  5. ›familyFalconidae
  6. ›genusFalco
  7. ›speciesFalco sparverius
Full lineage
  1. classBirds · Aves
  2. orderFalconiformes
  3. familyFalconidae
  4. genusCerchneis
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  1. kingdomMetazoa
  2. phylumChordata
  3. subphylumCraniata
  4. subphylumVertebrata
  5. superclassGnathostomata
  6. superclassSarcopterygii
  7. superclassTetrapoda
  8. orderSauria
  9. classBirds · Aves
  10. orderFalconiformes
  11. familyFalconidae
  12. genusCerchneis
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In other languages
sparvfalk (sv), xoriguer americà (ca), poštolka pestrá (cs), Amerikansk Tårnfalk (da), Buntfalke (de), Falco sparverius (es) … and 25 more languages
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