Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Subkingdom Eumetazoa > Phylum Chordata > Subphylum Vertebrata > Infraphylum Gnathostomata > Megaclass Tetrapoda > Superclass Reptilia > Class Aves > Subclass Passerae > Superorder Ciconiimorphae > Order Falconiformes > Suborder Falconi > Superfamily Falconoidea > Family Falconidae > Genus Falco

Falco tinnunculus Linnaeus, 1758

Rank: Species
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

FalcoLinnaeus, 1758accepted genus name

Vernaculars (+) (-)

 Albanian: aqyfleri; fajkua; fakjonja; falkoni; kaçubeti; petriti; shahimi (kthetrazi); shahini; skifteri; skilferi; skilfyer; skyferi; skylferi; sokol i dobishëm; sokoli; sokoli i erës sources: Dhora, DH. 2008. Fjalor i emrave të kafshëve të Shqipërisë (Emri shkencor – Shqip – Anglisht) / Dictionary of animal names of Albania (Scientific names – Albanian – English). Camaj – Pipa. Shkodër, Albania. pp. 288.
 Bulgarian: Керкенез sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points
 Danish: tårnfalk sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points
 Dutch: torenvalk
 English: common kestrel; Eurasian kestrel; kestrel sources: Bermuda Biodiversity Database;PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points
 French: faucon crécerelle
 German: Turnfalke sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points
 Greek: Βραχοκιρκίνεζο sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points
 Hebrew: בז מצוי sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points
 Lithuanian: pelėsakalis sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points
 Norwegian Bokmål: tårnfalk sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points
 Norwegian Nynorsk: tårnfalk sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points
 Polish: pustułka sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points
 Romanian: vânturelul roşu sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points
 Russian: обыкновенная пустельга sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points
 Scottish Gaelic: pocaire gaoithe sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points
 Slovenian: postovka sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points
 Spanish, Castillian: cernícalo vulgar sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points
 Swedish: tornfalk sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points
 Turkish: bayağı kerkenez sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points
 Ukrainian: Боривітер звичайний sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points
 Welsh: cudyll coch

Literature

original description

Linnaeus, C. (1758). Systema Naturae per regna tria naturae, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis. [The system of nature through the three kingdoms of nature, according to classes, orders, genera, species, with characters, differences, synonyms, places.]. Impensis Direct. Laurentii Salvii. Holmiae [Stockholm]. 1(10) [iii], 824 p.

basis of record

Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS).

Genbank

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Citation

WoRMS (2025). Falco tinnunculus Linnaeus, 1758. Accessed at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=345751

Drs. Cees Roselaar. Falco tinnunculus Linnaeus, 1758. Accessed through: Fauna Europaea at https://portal.cybertaxonomy.org/fauna-europaea/cdm_dataportal/taxon/0de9ee04-e7e5-49bd-b7be-8ed27dc4ca00

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Occurrence

 Present  Absent  Doubtful  Native  Introduced  Naturalised  Invasive  Managed  No data

Environment


not marine, not brackish, terrestrial

Importance

no data

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Last modified

2011-04-08 by Drs. Cees Roselaar & by Peter Adriaens

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