Typical in-flight appearance of a Common Kestrel

Image: Common Kestrel 2. jpg | Adult male F. t. tinnunculus landing

In the cool-temperate parts of its range, the Common Kestrel migrates south in winter ; otherwise it is sedentary, though juveniles may wander around in search for a good place to settle down as they become mature.

The Common Kestrel readily adapts to human settlement, as long as sufficient swathes of vegetation are available, and may even be found in wetlands, moorlands and arid savanna.

When hunting, the Common Kestrel characteristically hovers about 10 – 20 m ( c. 30 – 70 ft ) above the ground, searching for prey, either by flying into the wind or by soaring using ridge lift.

European Pine Vole ( Microtus subterraneus ), a typical Common Kestrel prey since prehistoric times

The Common Kestrel starts breeding in spring ( or the start of the dry season in the tropics ), i. e. April / May in temperate Eurasia and some time between August and December in the tropics and southern Africa.

The Common Kestrel's closest living relative is apparently the Nankeen or Australian Kestrel ( F. cenchroides ), which probably derived from ancestral Common Kestrels settling in Australia and adapting to local conditions less than one million years ago, during the Middle Pleistocene.

The Rock Kestrel may be a distinct species F. rupicolus, more distantly related to the Common Kestrel proper than the Nankeen Kestrel ; its relationship to the other African and South Asian kestrel taxa remains insufficiently studied.

The Lesser Kestrel ( F. naumanni ), which much resembles a small Common Kestrel with no black on the upperside except wing and tail tips, is probably not very closely related to the present species, and the American Kestrel ( F. sparverius ) is apparently not a true kestrel at all.

Both species have much grey in their wings in males, which does not occur in the Common Kestrel or its close living relatives but does in almost all other falcons.

A number of subspecies of the Common Kestrel are known, though some are hardly distinct and may be invalid.

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* Live Streaming of Common Kestrel nest in Amadora, Portugal

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The Common Buzzard was first described by Linnaeus in his Systema naturae in 1758 as Falco buteo.

Delivery of Common Lizards ( Zootoca Lacerta vivipara ) to nests of Eurasian Kestrels ( Falco tinnunculus ) determined by solar height and ambient temperature.

Although the Common House Martin is hunted by the Hobby ( Falco subbuteo ), its aerial skills enable it to evade most predators.

* Falco tinnunculus Common Kestrel

The morphological similarity with the Common Kestrel is most puzzling, but still it appears to betray the present species ' actual relationships: the lack of a malar stripe seems ancestral for kestrels, and the grey wing colour unites the Lesser Kestrel with most other Falco species, but not the other true kestrels.

Behaviour remains similar to other small species of Falco ( such as the Common Kestrel, Falco tinnunculus ) except on ( originally ) forested Mauritius where kestrels hunt arboreally more like hawks.

There are several birds of prey, most common are the Eleonora's Falcon ( Falco Eleonorae ), the European Scops Owl ( Otus Scops ) and the Common Buzzard ( Buteo buteo ).

Purple Heron ( Ardea purpurea ), Grey Heron ( Ardea cinerea ), Little Egret ( Egretta garzetta ), Black-crowned Night Heron ( Nycticorax nycticorax ), Great Bittern ( Botaurus stellaris ), Red-crested Pochard ( Netta rufina ), Northern Shoveler ( Anas clypeata ), Wigeon ( Anas penelope ), Northern Pintail ( Anas acuta ), Common Teal ( Anas crecca ), Eurasian Hobby ( Falco subbuteo ), Slavonian Grebe ( Podiceps auritus ), Black-necked Grebe ( Podiceps nigricollis ), Black-winged Stilt ( Himantopus himantopus ), Zitting Cisticola ( Cisticola juncidis ), Bearded Reedling ( Panurus biarmicus )...

The pressure for our entry to the Common Market is mounting and we will proceed towards this amalgamated trade union by way of a purely `` economic thoroughfare '', or garden path, with the political ramifications kept neatly in the background.

If it is not enough that all of our internationalist One Worlders are advocating that we join this market, I refer you to an article in the New York Times' magazine section ( Nov. 12, 1961 ), by Mr. Eric Johnston, entitled `` We Must Join The Common Market ''.

) Well, anyhow, Dogtown Common is so much off the beaten track nowadays that only Sunday picnickers still stray up there, from time to time.

Compared to other grains, amaranth is unusually rich in the essential amino acid lysine Common grains such as wheat and corn are comparatively rich in amino acids that amaranth lacks ; thus, amaranth and other grains can complement each other.

The Common Desktop Environment ( CDE ) is AIX's default graphical user interface.

Common to many of them is the theme of losing or being betrayed by a husband or fiancé.

The Porvoo Common Statement ( 1996 ), agreed to by the Anglican churches of the British Isles and most of the Lutheran churches of Scandinavia and the Baltic, also stated that " the continuity signified in the consecration of a bishop to episcopal ministry cannot be divorced from the continuity of life and witness of the diocese to which he is called.

In certain Common Law jurisdictions, such as India or Pakistan, the power to pass such writs is a Constitutionally guaranteed power.

Common among the mislabeled works are all of the reasons identified for misattributing Cuyp ’ s works: the lack of biography and chronology of his works made it difficult to discern when paintings were created ( making it difficult to pinpoint an artist ); contentious signatures added to historians ’ confusion as to who actually painted the works ; and the collaborations and influences by different painters makes it hard to justify that a painting is genuinely that of Aelbert Cuyp ; and finally, accurate identification is made extremely difficult by the fact that this same style was copied ( rather accurately ) by his predecessor.

It is notable for omitting the line " he descended into hell ", but is otherwise very similar to the Book of Common Prayer version.

The United Methodist Hymnal also contains ( at # 882 ) what it terms the " Ecumenical Version " of this creed — a version which is identical to that found in the Episcopal Church's current Book of Common Prayer.

* Common brass, or rivet brass, is a 37 % zinc brass, cheap and standard for cold working.

* California Penal Code Section 158: " Common barratry is the practice of exciting groundless judicial proceedings, and is punishable by imprisonment in the county jail not exceeding six months and by fine not exceeding one thousand dollars ($ 1, 000 ).

The language is mainly split into two broad dialect areas, based on the different reflexes of the Common Slavic yat vowel ().

Schelter is credited with the development of the GNU Common Lisp ( gcl ) implementation of Common Lisp and the GPL'd version of the computer algebra system Macsyma called GNU Maxima.

The Common Buzzard ( Buteo buteo ) is a medium to large bird of prey, whose range covers most of Europe and extends into Asia.

Since the early 20th century it has been commonly accepted that Old Irish Bel ( l ) taine is derived from a Common Celtic * belo-te ( p ) niâ, meaning " bright fire " ( where the element * belo-might be cognate with the English word bale in ' bale-fire ' meaning ' white ' or ' shining '; compare Anglo-Saxon bael, and Lithuanian / Latvian baltas / balts, found in the name of the Baltic ; in Slavic languages byelo or beloye also means ' white ', as in Беларусь ( White Russia or Belarus ) or Бе ́ лое мо ́ ре Sea ).

The Book of Common Prayer is the short title of a number of related prayer books used in the Anglican Communion, as well as by the Continuing Anglican, " Anglican realignment " and other Anglican churches.

A Book of Common Prayer with local variations is used in churches inside and outside the Anglican Communion in over 50 different countries and in over 150 different languages.

The full name of the 1662 Book of Common Prayer is The Book of Common Prayer and Administration of the Sacraments and other Rites and Ceremonies of the Church according to the use of the Church of England together with the Psalter or Psalms of David pointed as they are to be sung or said in churches and the form and manner of making, ordaining, and consecrating of bishops, priests, and deacons.