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Both sexes share pale, buff-cream underparts streaked with dark brown, long pointed wings, and a long tail — proportions that give the kestrel its characteristic silhouette in flight, quite different from the broader-winged buzzards it sometimes shares a field with.",[10,40,42],{"id":41},"range-and-habitat","Range and habitat",[15,44,45,46,49],{},"The common kestrel is one of the most widespread birds of prey in the world, breeding across almost all of Europe, Asia, and Africa. In Russia it occurs from the western border to the Far East, absent only from the high Arctic tundra. 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