The lesser kestrel (Falco naumanni) is a small falcon. This species breeds from the Mediterranean[2] 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,[3] and the species name commemorates the German naturalist Johann Friedrich Naumann.[4]
^BirdLife International (2018). "Falco naumanni". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2018: e.T22696357A131938109. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2018-2.RLTS.T22696357A131938109.en. Retrieved 12 November 2021.
^MOURAD AMARI, HICHEM AZAFZAF (2001). Tunisia in Important Bird Areas in Africa and Associated Islands: Priority Sites for Conservation, Fishpool, L. D. C. and Evans, M. I., eds(PDF). Cambridge: Pisces Publications, Birdlife International. p. 961.
^Shorter Oxford English dictionary. United Kingdom: Oxford University Press. 2007. p. 3804. ISBN 978-0199206872.
^Jobling, James A (2010). The Helm Dictionary of Scientific Bird Names. London: Christopher Helm. pp. 266. ISBN 978-1-4081-2501-4.
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