Lesser Kestrel (Falco naumanni)

Lesser Kestrel (Falco naumanni)

About Lesser Kestrel (Falco naumanni)

Kingdom: Animals
Phylum: Chordates
Class: Birds
Order: Pelicans
Family: Falcons and Caracaras

The lesser kestrel is a small falcon. This species breeds from the Mediterranean across Afghanistan and Central Asia, to China and Mongolia. It is a summer migrant, wintering in Africa and Pakistan and sometimes even to India and Iraq. It is rare north of its breeding range, and declining in its European range. The genus name derives from Late Latin falx, falcis, a sickle, referencing the claws of the bird, and the species name commemorates the German naturalist Johann Friedrich Naumann.

Source: Wikipedia