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Eurasian Kestrel Male: fewer black spots and streaks, blue-grey
head and tail By far the most numerous falcon Europe and found
from the British Isles and northern Norway south to the
Mediterranean and the major Mediterranean islands and from
Iberia east to Russia. Also found throughout Turkey and the
Middle East, and breeds across Asia to the Pacific coast of the
Russian Far East, China, Korea and Japan. In Africa breeds in
the north from Morocco to the Nile Valley and south of the
Sahara from Senegal east to Ethiopia and south to the Cape but
absent from the forests of central Africa. Northernmost
populations are migratory, the remainder resident or with the
young birds dispersive. Autumn passage extends from August-
November and birds return to southern parts of breeding range in
February and as late as June in the north. The Common Kestrel is
a broad-front migrant but is seen in good numbers along the
major migration routes. Vagrants have been recorde