In northern Spain, Red-billed Choughs preferentially nest near Lesser Kestrel colonies.

* Falco naumanni Lesser Kestrel

They host many endemic and endangered species, such as Great White Pelican, Dalmatian Pelican, Pygmy Cormorant, Cattle Egret, Little Egret, Greater Flamingo, White-headed Duck, Ferruginous Duck, Eurasian Spoonbill, Glossy Ibis, Houbara Bustard, Great Black-headed Gull, Slender-billed Gull, Squacco Heron, Common Crane, Demoiselle Crane, Slender-billed Curlew, Black Stork, Red-breasted Goose, Lesser White-fronted Goose, Lesser Kestrel, Whooper Swan, Tundra Swan, Osprey, Pallid Harrier, Short-toed Eagle and many others.

The Lesser Kestrel ( Falco naumanni ) is a small falcon.

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.

The Lesser Kestrel is, as the name implies, a smaller and more delicate bird than the Common Kestrel, and it is entirely sympatric in its breeding range with it ; they compete to a limited extent.

Considering that the Lesser Kestrel would in fact have an advantage if some would-be predators confuse it with the larger species and consequently avoid it, it might be a case of Müllerian mimicry.

The Lesser Kestrel eats insects, but also small birds, reptiles and rodents ( especially mice ), which are often taken on the ground.

* Lesser Kestrel breeding in a village in the south of France

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Other endangered animals include the Aye-Aye, Alaotran Gentle Lemur, free-ranging Black Lion Tamarin, Pied Tamarin and Silvery Marmoset, Andean Bear, Maned Wolf, Narrow Striped Mongoose, Mauritius Pink Pigeon, Mauritius Kestrel, St Lucia Parrot, Bali Starling, Meller's Duck, Madagascar Teal ( Bernier's Teal ), Round Island Boa, Lesser Antillean Iguana and Mallorcan midwife toad.

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# Lesser Kestrel

A large part of the municipality is covered by the European Union's Natura 2000 project ; it is denoted as a Special Protection Area ( SPA ) for endangered species of steppe birds such as the Great Bustard and Lesser Kestrel.

Lesser Kestrel ( Falco naumanni ) is a common breeder in surrounding villages.

He wrote an important book on the birds of Germany entitled Naturgeschichte der Vögel Deutschlands ( 1804 ), and his name has been commemorated in the Latin names of the birds Lesser Kestrel, Falco naumanni, and the Naumann's Thrush, Turdus naumanni.

* A Lesser Kestrel on the Isles of Scilly in May was the first to be seen by large numbers of observers

* Lesser Kestrel ( Falco naumanni )

Located in Southern Poland, Lesser Poland is the warmest place in Poland with an average temperature in the summer being between 23 ° C ( 73. 4 ° F ) and 30 ° C ( 86 ° F ), although they often reach 32 ° C ( 89. 6 ° F ) to 38 ° C ( 100. 4 ° F ) in July and August the two warmest months of the year.

The city of Tarnów, which is located in Lesser Poland, is the hottest place in Poland all year round, the average temperatures being 30 ° C ( 86 ° F ) in the summer and 4 ° C ( 39. 2 ° F ) in the winter.

Błędów Desert the only desert in Poland is located in Lesser Poland, where temperatures can often reach up to 38 ° C ( 100. 4 ° F ) in the summer.

* Meininger, Peter L., Pim A. Wolf, Dan A. Hadoud and Mohamed F. A. Essghaier ( 1994 ) Rediscovery of Lesser Crested Tern breeding in Libya British Birds 87 ( 4 ): 160-170.

Noteworthy fauna includes several species of seabirds, including the Red-footed Booby ( Sula sula ), Great Frigatebird ( Fregata minor ), Lesser Frigatebird ( F. ariel ), Black Noddy ( Anous minutus ), White Tern ( Gygis alba ), Masked Booby ( Sula dactylatra ), Brown Booby ( S. leucogaster ) and Brown Noddy ( Anous stolidus ).

As the name Asia came to be extended to other areas east of the Mediterranean, the name for Anatolian became specified as Asia Minor (" Lesser Asia ", Μικρὰ Ἀσία ) in Late Antiquity.

The Lesser Caucasus range extends through northern Armenia, runs southeast between Lake Sevan and Azerbaijan, then passes roughly along the Armenian-Azerbaijani border to Iran.

Elevations in the Lesser Caucasus vary between.

This usage has been regarded as Eurocentric by some, and the alternative terms Lesser Antarctica and Greater Antarctica ( respectively ) are sometimes preferred.

Other animals found in the relatively open habitats of the high Andes include the huemul, cougar, foxes in the genus Pseudalopex, and, for birds, certain species of tinamous ( notably members of the genus Nothoprocta ), Andean Goose, Giant Coot, flamingos ( mainly associated with hypersaline lakes ), Lesser Rhea, Andean Flicker, Diademed Sandpiper-plover, miners, sierra-finches and diuca-finches.

Rebuilt by the emperor Justin I after an earthquake in the 6th century, it became Justinopolis ( 525 ); but the old native name persisted, and when Thoros I, king of Lesser Armenia, made it his capital early in the 12th century, it was known as Anazarva.

* Ajax the Lesser, son of Oileus, ruler of Locris and the leader of the Locrian contingent during the Trojan War.

However, the game system was reviewed in 1990 in Dragon # 155 by Hartley, Patricia, and Kirk Lesser in " The Role of Computers " column.

A new translation by Zinnie Harris at the Donmar Warehouse, starring Gillian Anderson, Toby Stephens, Anton Lesser, Tara FitzGerald and Christopher Eccleston opened in May 2009.

The Arawaks inhabited the islands until the 15th century when they were displaced by the more aggressive Caribs, a tribe from the Lesser Antilles islands, after whom the Caribbean Sea is named.

The territory has also been recently relieving immigrants from many islands in Lesser Antilles.

Lesser migrations of Scandinavians, Portuguese, Greeks, Italians, Spanish, Polish, Scots, English, Jews, Russians and Irish immigrants also contributed to this ethnic mix.

In exchange, Banda predominantly received rice and cloth ; namely light cotton batik from Java, calicoes from India and ikat from the Lesser Sundas.

Coarser ikat from the Lesser Sundas was traded for sago from the Kei Islands, Aru and Seram.

Malay pilots, either recruited or forcibly conscripted, guided them via Java, the Lesser Sundas and Ambon to Banda, arriving in early 1512.

Some species, such as the Lesser Dwarf Lemur, store fat at the hind legs and the base of the tail and hibernate.

Lesser ports include Kribi, used chiefly for the export of wood, and Limbé, used only for palm-oil exports.

Over the course of three more voyages, Columbus visited the Greater and Lesser Antilles, as well as the Caribbean coast of Venezuela and Central America, claiming them for the Spanish Empire.

The Carib tribe in the Lesser Antilles, from whom the word cannibalism derives, acquired a long-standing reputation as cannibals following the recording of their legends in the 17th century.

At the fall of Troy, she sought shelter in the temple of Athena, where she was violently abducted and raped by Ajax the Lesser.

Lesser ingredients in these Western yellow curry powders are often coriander, cumin, fenugreek, mustard, chili, black pepper and salt.

After a long history as proprietary software, it was released as free software on 6 August 2012, under the GNU Lesser General Public License.

Lesser Flamingos in the Ngorongoro Crater, Tanzania.

Lesser taboo terms include " pony and trap " for " crap " ( as in defecate, but often used to denote nonsense or low quality ); to blow a raspberry ( rude sound of derision ) from raspberry tart for " fart "; " D ' Oyly Carte " for " fart "; " Jimmy Riddle " for " piddle " ( as in urinate ), " J. Arthur Rank " ( a film mogul ), or " ham shank " for " wank ", " Bristol Cities " ( contracted to ' Bristols ') for " titties ", etc.