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Information on American range, habitat, and plumage from Peterson, Sibley, and Hawks in Flight by Dunne, Sibley, and Sutton. Hunting method from ibid. and some of the most thrilling birding experiences of my life. —JerryFriedman 15:48, 31 Aug 2004 (UTC)

Habitat

The habitat map indicates they frequent California only in winter. I watched and photographed several last weekend, in mid-June, at the Stanford Academic Preserve, in Northern California. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Wadetregaskis (talk • contribs) 06:29, 27 June 2012 (UTC)[reply]

misinformation

I believe they are known as pigeon hawks due to their flight style, and not due to their dietary choices. Also, hawk is a perfectly valid term for a falcon. Falcons ARE hawks. 65.94.107.29

Only in the US. jimfbleak 16:58, 1 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Nominate race

The nominate subspecies named by Linnaeus is an American form. You would expect it to be the Scandinavian race that he surely must have been very familiar with. How did this come about? Jimfbleak 11:45, 9 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Clean up

I've partially cleaned up this article, note in particular that thumbnail sizes should not be set since that overrides user settings jimfbleak (talk) 06:14, 18 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Aeasalon or aesalon?

Which is the correct spelling? Both are used in the article. Caeruleancentaur (talk) 16:38, 3 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

I believe aesalon is the correct spelling. It is now consistent throughout article. Dger (talk) 22:03, 10 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Dashing theiFSEfASEfSEFSEfseFSefSEfSEfSEfSEfSef — Preceding unsigned comment added by 69.225.235.105 (talk) 17:27, 31 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Etymology

At least some online sources state that the name is not derived directly from Dutch but "from Anglo-French merilun, a shortened form of Old French esmerillon." (The modern French form, émerillon, has also lost the "s.") See http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=merlin. Note that the current "name" section is unsourced. Unless we have evidence that the name comes directly from Dutch, should we add the Anglo-French etymology instead?

Also, it's unclear what "vernacular merlin" is supposed to mean, unless the word "vernacular" belongs before "Dutch." Finally, in the sentence "The 's' has been abraded over time in the German language" the words "abraded over time" sound a bit silly; the "s" has (presumably) simply been "lost." 850 C (talk) 16:55, 4 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]

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