My organization is making a parade banner depicting Falco sparverius that will read “American Kestrel” in English, and we want to add the common name(s) in Haitian Creole and Spanish. There are several different common names in Spanish I’ve found and I’ve not found the common name in Kreyòl yet. I’ll be having this type of question for other species of animals in future, though the languages may vary—Bengali/Bangla, Amharic, and Arabic are some of the other languages we’ll be using for future projects, since those are the home languages other than English spoken most often in our community. The questions I have at the moment, and need answers to in a somewhat timely fashion, are
What’s the right common name for this species in Kreyòl; is there one of the Latin American Spanish common names for this species that is more common than others, more universal, or not?
P.S. I’m aware this is an animal with various subspecies throughout the Americas. It’s one of the reasons it’s been chosen.