{"id":25411,"date":"2012-11-05T14:32:00","date_gmt":"2012-11-05T13:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/galleries\/large-landbirds\/american-kestrel-falco-sparverius\/"},"modified":"2026-09-11T09:14:50","modified_gmt":"2026-09-11T08:14:50","slug":"american-kestrel-falco-sparverius","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/galleries\/large-landbirds\/american-kestrel-falco-sparverius\/","title":{"rendered":"American Kestrel Falco sparverius"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The American Kestrel (Falco sparverius), sometimes colloquially known as the Sparrow Hawk, is a small falcon, and the only kestrel found in the Americas. It is the most common falcon in North America, and is found in a wide variety of habitats. It is the smallest falcon in North America.<\/p>\n<p>Factsheet: American Kestrel\u00a0<i>Falco\u00a0sparverius<\/i>\u00a0<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"ngg-galleryoverview\" id=\"ngg-gallery-283-25411\">\n\n\n\n    \t<!-- Thumbnails -->\n\t\t\n\t\t<div id=\"ngg-image-2098\" class=\"ngg-gallery-thumbnail-box nggvote-33\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"ngg-gallery-thumbnail\" >\n\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-content\/gallery\/american-kestrel-falco-sparverius\/american-kestrel-falco-sparverius-2.jpg\" title=\"American Kestrel (Falco sparverius) at Guardarraya,  Puerto Rico\" data-wpel-link=\"internal\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" title=\"American Kestrel (Falco sparverius) at Guardarraya,  Puerto Rico\" alt=\"American Kestrel (Falco sparverius) \" src=\"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-content\/gallery\/american-kestrel-falco-sparverius\/thumbs\/thumbs_american-kestrel-falco-sparverius-2.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"168\" \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t<span>American Kestrel (Falco sparverius) <\/span>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n \t\n\t\t<div id=\"ngg-image-2097\" class=\"ngg-gallery-thumbnail-box nggvote-33\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"ngg-gallery-thumbnail\" >\n\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-content\/gallery\/american-kestrel-falco-sparverius\/american-kestrel-falco-sparverius-1.jpg\" title=\"American Kestrel (Falco sparverius) at Guardarraya,  Puerto Rico\" data-wpel-link=\"internal\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" title=\"American Kestrel (Falco sparverius) at Guardarraya,  Puerto Rico\" alt=\"American Kestrel (Falco sparverius) \" src=\"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-content\/gallery\/american-kestrel-falco-sparverius\/thumbs\/thumbs_american-kestrel-falco-sparverius-1.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"168\" \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t<span>American Kestrel (Falco sparverius) <\/span>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n \t\n\t<!-- Pagination -->\n \t<div class=\"ngg-clear\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The American Kestrel (Falco sparverius), sometimes colloquially known as the Sparrow Hawk, is a small falcon, and the only kestrel found in the Americas. It is the most common falcon in North America, and is found in a wide variety of habitats. It is the smallest falcon in North America. Factsheet: American Kestrel\u00a0Falco\u00a0sparverius\u00a0 &nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1178,"featured_media":827993,"parent":17615,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"tags":[2019,1308],"class_list":["post-25411","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-american-kestrel","tag-falco-sparverius"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/25411","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1178"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25411"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/25411\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/17615"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/827993"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25411"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25411"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}