Common Kestrel, Falco tinnunculus, is a species of day-flying bird of prey found in cropland and grassland ecosystems.

Falco tinnunculus has a breeding population size of 314000-460000 pairs and a breeding range size of 3940000 square kilometres in the EU27. The breeding population trend in the EU27 is Decreasing in the short term and Uncertain in the long term.

The EU population status of Falco tinnunculus was assessed as Secure, because the species does not meet any of the IUCN Red List criteria for threatened or Near Threatened, or the criteria for Depleted or Declining (the EU27 population or range has not declined by 20% or more since 1980).