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Falco sparverius Linnaeus, 1758 
AphiaID: 159072

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Chordata (Phylum) > Vertebrata (Subphylum) > Gnathostomata (Superclass) > Tetrapoda (Superclass) > Aves (Class) > Falconiformes (Order) > Falconidae (Family) > Falco (Genus)
Status accepted
Record
status
 Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Rank Species
Parent Falco Linnaeus, 1758
Sources  original description: Linnaeus, C. (1758). Systema Naturae per regna tria naturae, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis. Editio decima, reformata. Laurentius Salvius: Holmiae. ii, 824 pp., available online at http://gdz.sub.uni-goettingen.de/no_cache/dms/load/toc/?IDDOC=265100 [details]

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. [details]

basis of record: Field Guide to Birds of North America 1983 [details]

basis of record: Peterson, R.T. and V.M. Peterson. 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.  [details]

basis of record: Vanner, M. 2003. The encyclopedia of North American birds. Paragon Publishing. Bath. 383 p. [details]

additional source: Gallardo, J. C., V. Macías, and E. Velarde. 2009. Birds (Vertebrata: Aves) of the Gulf of Mexico, Pp. 1321–1342 in Felder, D.L. and D.K. Camp (eds.), Gulf of Mexico–Origins, Waters, and Biota. Biodiversity. Texas A&M Press, College Station, Texas. [details]

Vernacular
Names
 
Language   Name 
Danish Amerikansk tårnfalk  [details]
Dutch Amerikaanse torenvalk  [details]
English American kestrel  [details]
French crécerelle d'Amérique  [details]
German Amerikanischer Turmfalke  [details]
German Buntfalke  [details]
Hebrew בז  [details]
Lithuanian Amerikinis pelėsakalis  [details]
Polish pustułka Amerykańska  [details]
Russian Aмериканская пустельга  [details]
Russian пустельга воробьиная  [details]
Slovenian Ameriška postovka  [details]
Spanish cernícalo Americano  [details]
Turkish Amerika kerkenezi  [details]
Ukrainian Американський боривітер  [details]
Ukrainian Боривітер американський  [details]
Environment marine, brackish
Distribution Gulf of Maine [details]
Gulf of Mexico [details]
North West Atlantic [details]
Links To Barcode of Life (22 barcodes)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (996 publications)
To GenBank (89 nucleotides; 66 proteins)
To IUCN Red List
To ITIS
Notes  Dimensions: Length: 10 1/2" (27 cm); Wingspan: 23" (58 cm) [details]

Distribution: Caribbean; North America [details]
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:159072
Taxonomic
Edit history
 
Date   action   by
2005-05-27 09:47:05Z  created  Appeltans, Ward
2011-04-08 06:18:06Z  checked  Adriaens, Peter
  
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  Citation: Adriaens, P. (2013). Falco sparverius Linnaeus, 1758. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=159072 on 2013-05-22
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