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  • The raptor, Falco sparverius fernandensis, the cernícalo, is represented in San Ambrosio by a subspecies lives on this island as well as on the Juan Fernández Archipelago.

    San Félix-San Ambrosio Islands temperate forests 2007

  • Eight species live on the islands, including Falco sparverius fernandesianus, found only on San Ambrosio.

    San Félix-San Ambrosio Islands temperate forests 2007

  • There are also nests of species of the terns, Sterna fuscata, Anous stolidus and Procelsterna cerulea as well as a small population of the cernícalo, Falco sparverius fernandensis, the only land bird of the archipelago.

    San Félix-San Ambrosio Islands temperate forests 2007

  • Only Falco sparverius appears both on these islands and continental Chile, although on the islands it is represented by an oceanic subspecies.

    San Félix-San Ambrosio Islands temperate forests 2007

  • The birds endemic at the species level are: the Juan Fernández firecrown, Sephanoides fernandensis (the only endemic hummingbird known on oceanic islands), the "rayadito" from Masafuera, Aphrastura masafuerae, the Juan Fernández tit-tyrant, Arlairetes fernandezianus, and the endemic at the subspecies level: the Juan Fernández red-backed hawk, Buteo polyosoma exsul, and the Juan Fernández sparrow hawk, Falco sparverius fernandensis.

    Juan Fernández Islands temperate forests 2007

  • Burleigh and Lowery (1942: 188) noted Sparrow Hawks almost daily about Saltillo and infrequently in the open valley south of Diamante Pass; they took a female at Saltillo on April 22 that was assigned to _F.s. sparverius_.

    Birds from Coahuila, Mexico Emil K. Urban

  • (_Falco sparverius_, L.), which is very numerous in Peru.

    Travels in Peru, on the Coast, in the Sierra, Across the Cordilleras and the Andes, into the Primeval Forests Johann Jakob von Tschudi 1853

  • Field martin 8.398 Vultur aura Buteo specie GaHo-pavonis 1.6 Turkev buzzard 1.246 Falco leucocephalus Aquila capite albo 1.1 Bald Eagle 1.138 Falco sparverius Accipiter minor 1.5 Little hawk.

    Notes on the State of Virginia 1781

  • The American kestrel (falco sparverius) is one of the smallest American hawks, but may be one of the most fun to watch.

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  • Some of the most characteristic are the Hispaniolan parrot (Amazona ventralis), the parakeet (Aratinga chloroptera), the Hispamiolan lizard cuckoo (Saurothera longirostris), the palm crow (Corvus palmarum), the American kestrel (Falco sparverius), the Vervain hummingbird (Mellisuga minima), the narrow-billed tody or "barrancolí" (Todus angustriostris).

    Hispaniolan moist forests 2008

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