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🧬 Biological Classification (Kingdom to Species)Falco tinnunculus

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Chordata

Class

Aves

Order

Falconiformes

Family

Falconidae

Genus

Falco

Species

Falco tinnunculus

Aves🥩 Carnivore

Common Kestrel

Falco tinnunculus (Common Kestrel · チョウゲンボウ)

🛡️ Conservation Status (IUCN Red List)LC (Least Concern)

DDData Deficient

LCLeast Concern

NTNear Threatened

VUVulnerable

ENEndangered

CRCritically End.

EWExtinct in Wild

EXExtinct

🇰🇷 Natural Monument (Korea) «Common Kestrel»

Geological Era

Extant

Diet

Carnivore

Length · Height

30~36cm · No data (Wingspan 0.7m)

Mass · Top Speed

150~190g · No data

Habitat & Fossil Locality

Grasslands and farmland, forests and wetlands, urban buildings, up to 5,000 m in elevation

💡 Everyday Comparisons for Size, Mass & Speed

💡 With records of raising chicks on apartment balconies and in high-rise building vents, it is a falcon that can be encountered even in cities.
💡 Its weight of 0.19 kg is slightly more than 3 chicken eggs (assuming 1 egg weighs 60 g, Comparison).
💡 It is also a bird that preys on voles in open fields.

Reference standards: coach bus ~12 m, mid-size car ~4.9 m, compact car ~1 t, basketball hoop 3.05 m, credit card 8.56 cm.

📊 Mass & Speed Index (0–100)

⚖️ Mass Index (Blue Whale ~190 t = 100, log scale)26

Site-computed relative index from recorded values; not a formal scientific metric.

#황조롱이#Falco tinnunculus

📖 1. Overview

The Common Kestrel is a small falcon widely distributed across Eurasia and Africa, and in Korea it is a resident bird that also breeds on urban buildings.

🦴 2. Anatomy & Morphology

The male has a bluish-gray head and tail, while the female is reddish-brown with horizontal bars on the tail. Both sexes have a dark stripe or spot below the eye.

🔍 3. Ecology & Behavior

It mainly eats voles and also walks on the ground to catch insects such as beetles and grasshoppers. Rather than building its own nest, it uses cliff ledges, buildings, or old nests of other birds, laying 3–7 eggs.

🇰🇷 4. Connection to Korea

In Korea, it was designated as a Natural Monument (Korea) on November 16, 1982, and is a fairly common resident bird breeding on urban buildings and in mountains. There are records of it breeding on 10th-floor apartment balconies in Seoul and Masan and in vents of high-rise university buildings.