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 columbarius Linnaeus, 1758

Rank: Species
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Falco*	Linnaeus, 1758	accepted genus name

Vernaculars (+) (-)

Albanian: skifteri i vogël 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: Малък сокол sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

Danish: dværgfalk sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

Dutch: smelleken sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

English: merlin; pigeon hawk sources: North-West Atlantic Ocean species (NWARMS)

French: faucon émerillon sources: Avibase - the world bird database.

German: Merlin sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

Greek: Νανογέρακο sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

Hebrew: בז גמד sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

Italian: smeriglio sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

Lithuanian: startsakalis sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

Norwegian: dvergfalk sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

Norwegian Bokmål: dvergfalk sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

Norwegian Nynorsk: dvergfalk sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

Polish: drzemlik sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

Romanian: şoim de iarnă; sşoim de iarnă sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

Russian: дербник sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

Scottish Gaelic: meirliún sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

Slovenian: mali sokol sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

Spanish, Castillian: esmerejón sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

Swedish: stenfalk sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

Turkish: boz dogan; boz doğan sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

Ukrainian: дербник; Підсоколик малий sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

Welsh: cudyll bach

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	Banks, R.C., R.W. McDiarmid, and A.L. Gardner. 1987. Checklist of vertebrates of the United States, the U.S. Territories, and Canada. U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Resource Publication No. 166. 79 p.
additional source	Vanner, M. (2003). The encyclopedia of North American birds. Paragon Publishing. 1-383.
additional source	Squires, H. J. (1990). Decapod Crustacea of the Atlantic coast of Canada. Canadian Bulletin of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences. 221: 532 p.
additional source	Robbins, C. S. (1983). Golden field Guide to Birds of North America. Golden press. 360p.
additional source	Peterson, R.T.; Peterson, V.M. (2002). A field guide to the birds of eastern and central North America. Fifth Edition. Peterson Field Guide Series. Houghton Mifflin Company. New York. 427 p.
additional source	Gallardo, J. C.; Macías, V.; Velarde, E. (2009). Birds (Vertebrata: Aves) of the Gulf of Mexico. In: Felder, D.L. and D.K. Camp (eds.), Gulf of Mexico–Origins, Waters, and Biota. Biodiversity. Texas A&M Press, College Station, Texas. Pp. 1321–1342.