Species names in all available languages
| Language | Common name |
|---|---|
| Albanian | Skifteri kthetrazi |
| Arabic | عوسق |
| Armenian | Սովորական հողմավար բազե |
| Asturian | Peñerina comñn |
| Azerbaijani | Adi muymul |
| Basque | Belatz gorria |
| Bulgarian | Черношипа ветрушка |
| Catalan | Xoriguer comú |
| Chinese | 紅隼 |
| Chinese (SIM) | 红隼 |
| Croatian | vjetruša |
| Czech | poštolka obecná |
| Danish | Tårnfalk |
| Dutch | Torenvalk |
| English | Eurasian Kestrel |
| English (India) | Eurasian Kestrel (Common Kestrel) |
| English (Kenya) | Common Kestrel |
| English (UK) | Common Kestrel |
| English (United States) | Eurasian Kestrel |
| Faroese | Grýtissmyril |
| Finnish | tuulihaukka |
| French | Faucon crécerelle |
| French (France) | Faucon crécerelle |
| Galician | Lagarteiro común |
| German | Turmfalke |
| Greek | Βραχοκιρκίνεζο |
| Hebrew | בז מצוי |
| Hungarian | Vörös vércse |
| Icelandic | Turnfálki |
| Indonesian | Alap-alap erasia |
| Italian | Gheppio |
| Japanese | チョウゲンボウ |
| Korean | 황조롱이 |
| Latvian | Lauku piekūns |
| Lithuanian | Paprastasis pelėsakalis |
| Malayalam | വിറയൻപുള്ള് |
| Marathi | खरूची |
| Mongolian | Начин шонхор |
| Norwegian | tårnfalk |
| Persian | دلیجه معمولی |
| Polish | pustułka |
| Portuguese (Angola) | Peneireiro-vulgar-europeu |
| Portuguese (Brazil) | peneireiro-de-dorso-malhado |
| Portuguese (Portugal) | Peneireiro-de-dorso-malhado |
| Romanian | Vânturel roșu |
| Russian | Пустельга |
| Serbian | Vetruška |
| Slovak | sokol myšiar (pustovka) |
| Slovenian | Postovka |
| Spanish | Cernícalo Vulgar |
| Spanish (Spain) | Cernícalo vulgar |
| Swedish | tornfalk |
| Thai | เหยี่ยวเคสเตรล |
| Turkish | Kerkenez |
| Ukrainian | Боривітер звичайний |
Falco tinnunculus Linnaeus, 1758
PROTONYM:
Falco Tinnunculus
Linnaeus, 1758. Systema Naturæ per Regna Tria Naturæ, Secundum Classes, Ordines, Genera, Species, cum Characteribus, Differentiis, Synonymis, Locis. Tomus I. Editio decima, reformata 1, p.90.
TYPE LOCALITY:
Europe; restricted to Sweden by Linnaeus, 1761, Fauna Svecica, ed. 2, p. 21.
SOURCE:
Avibase, 2023
Definitions
- FALCO
- falco
- tinnuncula / tinnunculus
- Tinnunculus
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UPPERCASE: current genus
Uppercase first letter: generic synonym
● and ● See: generic homonyms
lowercase: species and subspecies
●: early names, variants, misspellings
‡: extinct
†: type species
Gr.: ancient Greek
L.: Latin
<: derived from
syn: synonym of
/: separates historical and modern geographic names
ex: based on
TL: type locality
OD: original diagnosis (genus) or original description (species)
SPECIES
Eurasian Kestrel Falco tinnunculus Scientific name definitions
Jaume Orta, Peter F. D. Boesman, and Jeffrey S. Marks
Version: 1.0 — Published March 4, 2020
Text last updated April 25, 2017
Version: 1.0 — Published March 4, 2020
Text last updated April 25, 2017
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Birds of the World
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Version 1.0
- March 4, 2020
- Eurasian Kestrel Falco tinnunculus
Authors
Jaume Orta, Peter F. D. Boesman, and Jeffrey S. Marks
Recommended Citation
Orta, J., P. F. D. Boesman, and J. S. Marks (2020). Eurasian Kestrel (Falco tinnunculus), version 1.0. In Birds of the World (S. M. Billerman, B. K. Keeney, P. G. Rodewald, and T. S. Schulenberg, Editors). Cornell Lab of Ornithology, Ithaca, NY, USA. https://doi.org/10.2173/bow.eurkes.01
Handbook of the Birds of the World
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Last Published Version
- April 25, 2017
- Common Kestrel Falco tinnunculus
Authors
Jaume Orta, Peter F. D. Boesman, and Jeffrey S. Marks
Revisors
Peter F. D. Boesman and Jeffrey S. Marks
Recommended Citation
Orta, J., P. F. D. Boesman, and J. S. Marks (2017). Common Kestrel (Falco tinnunculus). In Handbook of the Birds of the World Alive (J. del Hoyo, A. Elliott, J. Sargatal, D. A. Christie, and E. de Juana, Editors). Lynx Edicions, Barcelona.