Belize Biodiversity Information System NAME - American Kestrel FAMILY - Falconidae SCIENTIFIC NAME - Falco sparverius REFERENCES - 25 and 1 National abundance, Conservation or Economic Status Reference Winter visitor - migrant. 26 Winter visitor - migrant. 3 Apparently secure in Belize 24 Uncommon: occur at low density in proper habitat. 24 Winter visitor - migrant. 3 PIF-2 Pri. 7, most winter n. Mexico 20 PIF Trend: Possible Increase 20 U.S. Migratory Bird Treaty 16 District Reference Belize 5 Cayo 5 Orange Walk 5 Toledo 4 Administrative Unit Occurrence Temporal Reference Mountain Pine Ridge Forest Reserve Collected as voucher 22 Columbia River Forest Reserve Dry season 4 Rio Bravo Conservation Area 12 Rio Bravo Conservation Area 18 Gallon Jug Dry season 5 Gallon Jug Wet season 11 Gallon Jug 10 Cockscomb Basin Wildlife Sanctuary 17 Northern Lagoon/Southern Lagoon (Prop Wet season 10 Private land, see comments Sighting Dry season 9 Private land, see comments Migrant 7 Private land, see comments 10 Private land, see comments 14 Private land, see comments Sighting 15 Private land, see comments Collected as voucher 22 Government land 13 Government land 14 Government land Collected as voucher 21 Caye Caulker Winter Res 6 Hydrologic Association Reference New River Lagoon 18 Belize River 7 Elevation Reference 1-200 m 15 1-200 m 18 1-200 m 19 1-200 m 21 1-200 m 22 401-600 m 22 1:50,000 Quadrangle Reference 17 45' to 18 00'; 88 00' to 88 15' 6 17 30' to 17 45'; 89 00' to 89 15' 10 17 30' to 17 45'; 89 00' to 89 15' 19 17 30' to 17 45'; 89 00' to 89 15' 5 17 30' to 17 45'; 88 45' to 89 00' 19 17 30' to 17 45'; 88 30' to 88 45' 18 17 30' to 17 45'; 88 10' to 88 30' 14 17 30' to 17 45'; 88 10' to 88 30' 19 17 30' to 17 45'; 88 10' to 88 30' 22 17 30' to 17 45'; 88 10' to 88 30' 5 17 30' to 17 45'; 88 00' to 88 15' 10 17 30' to 17 45'; 88 00' to 88 15' 6 17 15' to 17 30'; 89 00' to 89 15' 9 17 15' to 17 30'; 88 45' to 89 00' 7 17 15' to 17 30'; 88 30' to 88 45' 19 17 15' to 17 30'; 88 00' to 88 10' 10 17 00' to 17 15'; 89 00' to 89 15' 10 17 00' to 17 15'; 89 00' to 89 15' 22 17 00' to 17 15'; 89 00' to 89 15' 9 17 00' to 17 15'; 88 45' to 89 00' 19 17 00' to 17 15'; 88 45' to 89 00' 22 17 00' to 17 15'; 88 45' to 89 00' 5 17 00' to 17 15'; 88 45' to 89 00' 9 17 00' to 17 15'; 88 30' to 88 45' 19 17 00' to 17 15'; 88 30' to 88 45' 5 17 00' to 17 15'; 88 00' to 88 30' 10 17 00' to 17 15'; 88 00' to 88 30' 21 16 45' to 17 00'; 88 30' to 88 45' 17 16 30' to 16 45'; 88 30' to 88 45' 17 16 15' to 16 30'; 89 00' to 89 15' 14 16 15' to 16 30'; 89 00' to 89 15' 4 18 00' to 18 15'; 88 30' to 88 45' 10 17 45' to 18 00'; 89 00' to 89 15' 12 17 45' to 18 00'; 88 45' to 89 00' 15 Holdridge Life Zone Reference Tropical moist-transition to Subtropical 21 Tropical moist-transition to Subtropical 19 Subtropical wet 17 Subtropical moist 22 Subtropical moist 18 Subtropical moist 15 Subtropical Lower Montane moist 22 General Distribution Comments 26* Common northern semideciduous moist forest. Uncommon southern moist-wet evergreen broadleaf forests. Rare Mtn. Pine Ridge/savannas on poor soil. Uncommon coastal/low-lands savannas, inc. marshy areas. 3* Uncommon in northern hardwood forests, uncommon in southern hardwood forests, rare in the Mountain Pine Ridge, uncommon in coastal savannahs. 14* Airport Camp; San Jose 13* Western Highway - no quad or exact location 10* Belize; Cayo; Orange Walk 9* Spanish Lookout 7* Banana Bank Ranch References 1 A.O.U. 1983. Checklist of North American Birds. 6th Ed. 2 A.O.U. 1985, 1987, 1989. 35th-37th Supplements. 3 Wood, D.S.,R. C. Leberman, and D. Weyer. 1986. Checklist of Birds of Belize. Carnegie Museum of Natural History Special Publication 12. 4 Matola, S., ed. 1990. The Columbia River Forest Reserve Expedition 9-16 December. Appendix II. pp.43-45. Unpub. report 5 Miller, B. W., 1994. Belize Christmas Bird Counts, Twenty Year Summary. in prep. 6 McRae, E. 1993. Preliminary Check-list - Birds of Caye Caulker. 7 Duncan, M., W. Duncan. 1993. Banana Bank, Nov. 1, Checklist provided in lit. 8 Weyer, D. 1984. Diurnal Birds of Prey of Belize. The Hawk Trust. Vol. 14 pp.23 - 39. 9 McDuffie, P. 1993. Personal Bird List for Belize: September 1, 1989 - December 15, 1993. Unpublished list. 10 Russell, S. M. 1964. A Distributional Study of the Birds of British Honduras. Ornithological Monographs No. 1, A.O.U. 11 Miller, B., C. Miller. 1994. A working checklist of the birds of Gallon Jug. Unpublished list. 12 Anon. 1994 (August). Working Checklist, Birds of Rio Bravo Conservation Management Area. Unpublished list. 13 Counsell, D.J.R., B. Etheridge. 1986. RAFOS Expedition to Belize. Unpublished report. 14 Hallchurch, T.T., compiler. 1982. Exercise King Vulture Belize 23 Feb.- 16 March. Unpub. report for the British Army Bird Watching Society. 15 Robbins, Chandler. 1996. U.S.F.& Wildlife Service Wintering Bird Surveys for Belize. Unpublished data provided by C. Robbins. 16 Title 50 Code of Federal Regulations, Subchapter B., Part 10.13: List of Migratory Birds. U.S. Government Printing Office: 1985 0-488-794. (Lists all species of migratory birds protected by the Migratory Bird Treaty Act (16 U.S.C. 703-711). 17 Kamstra, J. May 1987. An Ecological Survey of the Cockscomb Basin, Belize. Masters Thesis. York University, Ontario, Canada 18 Vallely, A. C., A. A. Whitman. 1996. The birds of Hill Bank, northern Belize. Unpublished report for Programme for Belize. 19 Miller, B. W. 1997. Belize Christmas Bird Count Summary 1970-1995. Data from American Birds Vol. 28-50 including 1973-1996. 20 Working Group, Partners in Flight. 1992. Needs Assessment: Monitoring Migratory Birds. Report for Neotropical Migratory Bird Program 21 Panza, R. 1997. Carnegie Museum, Division of Birds, Holdings of Belize specimens through Jun. 1, 1997. 22 Hinshaw, J. 1997. University of Michigan Museum of Zoology bird holdings through Jun. 1, 1997. 23 Howell, S. N. G., S. Webb. 1995. A Guide to the Birds of Mexico and Northern Central America. New York. Oxford University Press. 24 Miller, B.W., C.M. Miller. 1997. Avian Risk Assessment for Belize, Species at Risk and of Conservation Concern. Report to Programme for Belize/TNC Wings of America Program. 25 A.O.U. 1997. Forty-first Supplement to the American Ornithologists' Union Check-list of North American Birds. The Auk. 114 (3):542-552. 26 Garcia, J., S. Matola, M. Meadows, and C. Wright. 1994. A Checklist of the Birds of Belize. WWF-US. 35p.
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