Editing Common kestrel (section)

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| image = Common kestrel falco tinnunculus.jpg
| image_caption = Adult male ''Falco tinnunculus tinnunculus''
| image2 = Common Kestrel Falco tinnunculus Tal Chappar Rajasthan India 14.02.2013.jpg
| image2_caption = Adult Female ''Falco tinnunculus tinnunculus'' from [[Tal Chhapar Sanctuary]], [[Churu, Rajasthan]], India
| status = LC
| status_system = IUCN3.1
| status_ref = <ref name="iucn status 12 November 2021">{{cite iucn |author=BirdLife International|year= 2021 |title= ''Falco tinnunculus'' |page= e.T22696362A206316110 |doi=10.2305/IUCN.UK.2021-3.RLTS.T22696362A206316110.en |access-date=12 November 2021}}</ref>
| genus = Falco
| species = tinnunculus
| authority = [[Carl Linnaeus|Linnaeus]], [[10th edition of Systema Naturae|1758]]
| range_map = FalcoTinnunculusIUCNver2019-2.png
| range_map_caption = Global map of ''Falco tinnunculus'' {{leftlegend|#00FF00|Summer Range|outline=grey}}{{leftlegend|#008000|Year-Round Range|outline=grey}}{{leftlegend|#00FFFF|Passage migrant|outline=grey}}{{leftlegend|#007FFF|Winter Range|outline=grey}}
| subdivision_ranks = Subspecies
| subdivision =
About 10, see [[#Subspecies|text]]
| synonyms =
''Falco rupicolus'' <small>[[Francois-Marie Daudin|Daudin]], 1800</small> (but see [[#Subspecies|text]])<br />
''Falco tinnunculus interstictus'' <small>(''[[lapsus]]'')</small>
}}
[[File:Falco tinnunculus - Common Kestrel XC463430.mp3|thumb|Falco tinnunculus - Common Kestrel]]
The '''common kestrel''' ('''''Falco tinnunculus'''''), also known as the '''European kestrel''', '''Eurasian kestrel''' or '''Old World kestrel''', is a [[species]] of [[bird of prey|predatory bird]] belonging to the [[kestrel]] group of the [[falcon]] [[family (biology)|family]] [[Falconidae]]. In the [[United Kingdom]], where no other kestrel species commonly occurs, it is generally just called the "'''kestrel'''".<ref name=Mangoverde/>

This species occurs over a large [[native range]]. It is widespread in [[Europe]], [[Asia]] and [[Africa]], as well as occasionally reaching the east coast of [[North America]].<ref>{{Cite web|title=Common Kestrels {{!}} Beauty of Birds|url=https://www.beautyofbirds.com/commonkestrels.html|access-date=2021-01-05|website=www.beautyofbirds.com}}</ref> It has colonized a few [[ocean]]ic 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]].<ref name=Orta1994/><ref name=Wiles2000/><ref name=Wiles2004/>