I wanted a bird that would in nature rest in a Ficus tree. I have a Ficus tree in my house. While I was drawing the braided trunk, I kept getting lost and finally had to photograph it to get the braided trunk correct. I thought the American kestrel was actually a prettier bird but luckily it is not endangered, so I chose the Lesser kestrel native to Europe. It is a small bird of prey 11-13 inches in length with a 25-28” wing span. This species breeds from the Mediterranean across Afghanistan and Central Asia, to China and Mongolia. It is a summer migrant, wintering in Africa and Pakistan and sometimes even to India and Iraq. It's numbers are declining in its European range. Wikipedia was used as a reference and I used a direct quote of the Lesser Kestrel's migration.