Nankeen Kestrel

Order Falconiformes; Family Falconidae (Falcons and Kestrels); Scientific name: Falco cenchroides; Common name: Nankeen Kestrel; Alternative common name: Australian Kestrel – Delivering food, a skink, to chicks in the nest inside a tree hollow - Distribution in Australia: throughout all mainland states, Tasmania, Christmas, Norfolk and Lord Howe Islands – Distribution outside Australia: winters sometimes in Moluccas, Lesse Sundas, Aru Island and southern New Guinea occasional visitor to New Zealand; different subspecies occupies highlands of Papua New Guinea.