Common kestrel
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A common kestrel sometimes hunts on foot using sound and sight.
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A common kestrel sometimes hunts on foot using sound and sight.
THE REAL WORLD
The real Common kestrel
- Scientific name
- Falco tinnunculus
- Japanese name
- チョウゲンボウ
- Group
- Birds
- Class
- Aves
- Order
- Falconiformes
- Family
- Falconidae
- Genus
- Falco
A small bird of prey, a relative of the falcons, that lives across Eurasia and Africa.
How the Common kestrel lives
It hunts during the day. It mainly eats small mammals such as mice. When prey is plentiful, it sometimes caches what it does not eat. It spends much of its time perched and resting.
University of Michigan Animal Diversity WebBasic data
- Range
- Eurasia and Africa
Where the Common kestrel has been recorded
Records: GBIF.org (CC0 and CC BY 4.0 records, retrieved 2026-11-07). Map: Natural EarthSee the records on GBIF
Watch wild animals from a distance. Do not touch or feed them, and take care of the places where they live.
Names around the world
- 日本語
- チョウゲンボウ
- 简体中文
- 红隼
- 繁體中文
- 紅隼
- 한국어
- 황조롱이
- Español
- Cernícalo vulgar
- Français
- Faucon crécerelle
- Deutsch
- Turmfalke
- Português (Brasil)
- Peneireiro-vulgar
- Italiano
- Gheppio comune
- العربية
- عوسق شائع
- Bahasa Indonesia
- Alap-alap erasia
- Русский
- Обыкновенная пустельга
- Türkçe
- Bayağı kerkenez
- বাংলা
- পাতি কেস্ট্রেল
Names come from Wikidata and iNaturalist records. Where a language has no recorded name, we use the scientific name.
Sources and how we check
- 鳥羽水族館 — チョウゲンボウChecked: 2026-11-04
- University of Michigan Animal Diversity Web — Falco tinnunculusChecked: 2026-11-05
We check each fact against its source. The illustrations simplify how the real animal looks.
The classification (class, order, family, genus) follows Wikidata records, checked against GBIF. Classifications can change as research goes on.
The basic data are the values given in each source. They vary with how the animal is measured, whether it is male or female, and whether it lives in the wild or in captivity.
This page was translated from the original Japanese with the help of AI.
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