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Common kestrel falco tinnunculus🦅

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SpeciesFalconiformesFalconidae
Birds

🦅Common Kestrel

Falco tinnunculus Linnaeus, 1758

紅隼（學名：Falco tinnunculus）为隼科隼属的鳥類。又名茶隼、紅鷹、黃鷹、紅鷂子。 這種鳥類分佈廣泛，原生範圍遍及歐洲、亞洲和非洲，偶爾也會到達北美洲東海岸。 它已經在一些海洋島嶼上定居，但流浪個體通常很罕見；例如，在整個密克羅尼西亞，該物種僅在關島和塞班島的馬里亞納群島中分別被記錄過兩次。 一般棲息於林地、草原、有零星樹木的牧場、海岸等，築巢於懸崖、樹木以及舊建築或廢墟的牆上。 該物種的模式產地在瑞典。

Text: Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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Measurements
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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
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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
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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
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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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