Falco sparverius

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Falco sparverius - small North American falcon

American kestrel, kestrel, sparrow hawk

falcon - diurnal birds of prey having long pointed powerful wings adapted for swift flight

Falco, genus Falco - a genus of Falconidae

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y Croton sp., donde registramos a una familia de Falco sparverius (Fig.

Dieta del cernicalo americano (Falco sparverius Linnaeus, 1758) en dos localidades del valle interandino del norte de Ecuador

-- -- -- -- -- -- AVES Perdix perdix -- -- -- 4.3 3.2 10.8 Falco sparverius -- -- -- 4.3 3.2 4.3 Fulica americana -- -- -- -- -- -- Colaptes auratus -- -- -- 4.3 3.2 4.7 Picoides villosus -- -- -- 4.3 3.2 2.5 Sialia mexicana -- -- -- -- -- -- Unidentified large birds -- -- -- -- -- -- Unid.

Diet of the Great Horned Owl, Bubo virginianus, along a vegetation gradient in Oregon

Experimental infection of a North American raptor, American kestrel (Falco sparverius), with highly pathogenic avian influenza virus (H5N1).

Rapidly expanding range of highly pathogenic avian influenza viruses

Raptors were lacking except for Falco sparverius (American Kestrel).

Results of the Loblolly Marsh Wetland Preserve BioBlitz, Jay County, Indiana

A distal ulna of a falcon (SBMNH 770) seems slightly large for Falco sparverius and is here tentatively assigned to the slightly larger species F.

An updated catalogue of the birds from the Carpinteria Asphalt, Pleistocene of California

1600 h, the junior author and two colleagues were present when an adult red-tailed hawk captured and killed an adult female American kestrel (Falco sparverius) at Lemon Tank, San Clemente Island.

Interspecific depredation of raptors by red-tailed hawks (Buteo jamaicensis) on San Clemente Island, California

Species 1995 1996 1 -- Nycticorax violaceus -- 1(0.28) 2 -- Cathartes aura 8(2.46) 10(2.88) 3 -- Buteo jamaicensis 2(0.61) 1(0.28) 4 -- Falco sparverius -- 2(0.57) 5 -- Callipepla squamata 15(4.61) 4(1.15) 6 -- Zenaida macroura 23(7.07) 16(4.61) 7 -- Bubo virginianus 1(0.30) -- 8 -- Chordeiles acutipennis 26(8.00) 17(4.89) 9 -- Archilochus alexandri 3(0.92) 3(0.82) 10 -- Picoides scalaris 3(0.92) 11(3.17) 11 -- Empidonax minimus -- 2(0.57) 12 -- E.

A comparison of the bird community of creosote bush scrub during two consecutive summers in the Muncipality of Garcia, Nuevo Leon, Mexico

For instance, insect-eating species such as the American kestrel (Falco sparverius) and Swainson's hawk (Buteo swainsoni) depart each autumn when their insect food disappears.