Editing Lesser kestrel (section)

{{Short description|Species of bird}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=April 2017}}
{{Speciesbox
| status = LC
| status_system = IUCN3.1
| status_ref = <ref name="iucn status 12 November 2021">{{cite iucn |author=BirdLife International|year= 2021 |title= ''Falco naumanni'' |page= e.T22696357A205768513 |doi=10.2305/IUCN.UK.2021-3.RLTS.T22696357A205768513.en |access-date=12 November 2021}}</ref>
| image = Lesser Kestrel (Male).jpg
| image_caption = Male
| image2 = Lesser Kestrel (female).jpg
| image2_caption = Female
| genus = Falco
| species = naumanni
| authority = [[Johann Gottlieb Fleischer|Fleischer]], 1818<ref>{{cite journal|author=Fleischer, G.|url=https://www.digitale-sammlungen.de/en/view/bsb11038162?page=202,203|journal=Sylvan: Ein Jahrbuch für Forstmänner,Jäger und Jagdfreunde auf das Jahr 1818|year=1818|pages=173–176|title=Zwei neue falken}}</ref>
| range_map = Falco naumanni distribution.png
| range_map_caption = Range of ''F. naumanni'' {{leftlegend|#FFFF00|Breeding range|outline=gray}}{{leftlegend|#32CD32|Year-round range|outline=gray}}{{leftlegend|#0080FF|Wintering range|outline=gray}}
}}

The '''lesser kestrel''' ('''''Falco naumanni''''') is a small [[falcon]]. This [[species]] breeds from the [[Mediterranean]]<ref>{{Cite book |last=MOURAD AMARI, HICHEM AZAFZAF |url=http://datazone.birdlife.org/userfiles/file/IBAs/AfricaCntryPDFs/Tunisia.pdf |title=Tunisia in Important Bird Areas in Africa and Associated Islands: Priority Sites for Conservation, Fishpool, L. D. C. and Evans, M. I., eds |publisher=Pisces Publications, Birdlife International |year=2001 |location=Cambridge |pages=961 |language=en}}</ref> across [[Afghanistan]] and Central Asia, to China and [[Mongolia]]. It is a summer [[bird migration|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,<ref name=SOED>{{cite book|title=Shorter Oxford English dictionary | year=2007 |publisher=Oxford University Press|  location=United Kingdom| isbn=978-0199206872| pages=3804}}</ref> and the species name commemorates the German naturalist [[Johann Friedrich Naumann]].<ref name= job>{{cite book | last= Jobling | first= James A | year= 2010| title= The Helm Dictionary of Scientific Bird Names | url= https://archive.org/details/Helm_Dictionary_of_Scientific_Bird_Names_by_James_A._Jobling | publisher = Christopher Helm | location = London | isbn = 978-1-4081-2501-4 |pages =[https://archive.org/details/Helm_Dictionary_of_Scientific_Bird_Names_by_James_A._Jobling/page/n266 266]}}</ref>