American Kestrel

Taxonomy

Order

Falconiformes

Family

Falconidae

Genus

Falco

eBird Code

amekes

Subspecies (17)

• Falco sparverius aequatorialis

  subtropical northern Ecuador

• Falco sparverius brevipennis

  Aruba, Curaçao, and Bonaire

• Falco sparverius caribaearum

  West Indies (Puerto Rico to Grenada)

• Falco sparverius caucae

  mountains of western Colombia

• Falco sparverius cearae

  tablelands of northeastern Brazil to eastern Bolivia

• Falco sparverius cinnamominus

  southeastern Peru, Chile and Argentina to Tierra del Fuego

• Falco sparverius dominicensis

  Hispaniola and Jamaica

• Falco sparverius fernandensis

  Robinson Crusoe Island (Juan Fernández Islands off Chile)

• Falco sparverius isabellinus

  Venezuela to northern Brazil (Roraima)

• Falco sparverius nicaraguensis

  savanna of Honduras and Nicaragua

• Falco sparverius ochraceus

  mountains of eastern Colombia and northwestern Venezuela

• Falco sparverius paulus

  coastal southern USA to Florida

• Falco sparverius peninsularis

  western Mexico (southern Baja California, Sonora, and Sinaloa)

• Falco sparverius peruvianus

  subtropical southwestern Ecuador, Peru, and northern Chile

• Falco sparverius sparverioides

  Bahamas, Cuba including Isla de la Juventud

• Falco sparverius sparverius

  North America (Alaska to Newfoundland, southward to western Mexico)

• Falco sparverius tropicalis

  southern Mexico to northern Honduras