![]() Unlike most raptors, they display sexual colour dimorphism with the male having fewer black spots and streaks, as well as a blue-grey cap and tail. Their plumage is mainly light chestnut brown with blackish spots on the upperside and buff with narrow blackish streaks on the underside the remiges are also blackish. ![]() Like the other Falco species, they have long wings as well as a distinctive long tail. They are thus small compared with other birds of prey, but larger than most songbirds. It has colonized a few oceanic islands, but vagrant individuals are generally rare in the whole of Micronesia for example, the species was only recorded twice each on Guam and Saipan in the Marianas. It is widespread in Europe, Asia, and Africa, as well as occasionally reaching the east coast of North America. In the United Kingdom, where no other kestrel species commonly occurs, it is generally just called " kestrel". It is also known as the European kestrel, Eurasian kestrel, or Old World kestrel. The common kestrel ( Falco tinnunculus) is a bird of prey species belonging to the kestrel group of the falcon family Falconidae. ![]()
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