How To Use Kestrel In A Sentence
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The most common bird of prey is the kestrel, which feeds chiefly on rodents such as mice and voles but will occasionally take small birds, beetles, small frogs, etc.
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These values contrast with correlations between the barn owl and kestrel samples of r 0.189-0.355.
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The kestrel is the commonest hawk in the southern parts of England, so that many opportunities occur to observe his habits; and there ought not to be any doubt in the matter.
The Life of the Fields
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American Kestrels are found in a wide variety of open habitats, among them agricultural areas, grasslands, sagebrush, shrub-steppe, steppe, and dry forest zones.
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For there, high on a ledge in a dusty corner of the upstairs room, was a kestrels' nest complete with five eggs.
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Birds of prey also suffered, with many sparrowhawks and kestrels too badly injured to survive, though many owls were successfully treated and released.
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Other birds include: the endemic Seychelles bulbul Hypsipetes crassirostris, blue pigeon Alectroenas pulcherrima, Seychelles sunbird Nectarinia dussamieri, Seychelles kestrel Falco araea and an endemic cave-nesting swiftlet Collocalia francica elaphra.
Vallée de Mai Nature Reserve, Seychelles
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Disturbance after eggs are laid provides opportunities for predation by carrion crows, jays, kestrels, magpies, foxes and mink.
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Birds such as grouse, crows, quail, partridge, nightjars, cuckoos, shrikes, larks, pipits, merlins, harriers, kestrels and buzzards would all have been seen.
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The cuckoo, which resembles a sparrowhawk or a kestrel in flight, can be difficult to identify.
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The result is the area has become a wildlife sanctuary with otters returning, and residents including white egrets, herons, kestrels and dozens of wild flowers.
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The bird was unmistakably a male American Kestrel in full blue and orange plumage.
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It is home to hundreds of species of wildflowers and grasses - including the tansy, meadowsweet, poppy, vetch and marigold - a host of butterflies, insects and beetles, and birds of prey such as the owl and kestrel.
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At nesting time the parents become bold and pugnacious attacking crows, magpies, cuckoos and kestrels crossing their territory.
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Another kind of water -- also very matutinal in its delivery, -- the "_Aqua vita_," is intonated by the _Aquavitario_, in a sharp kestrel key, -- hear him!
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 62, Number 385. November, 1847.
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Birds such as grouse, crows, quail, partridge, nightjars, cuckoos, shrikes, larks, pipits, merlins, harriers, kestrels and buzzards would all have been seen.
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The kestrel is a small raptor in the falcon family.
Crow Pursuing Kestrel
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The film ends with the death of the kestrel at the hands of the boy's older brother in brutal retribution for a bet he didn't place.
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Look for the soaring rough-legged hawk and the hovering kestrel as each hunts for ground squirrels and other rodents.
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Most observations relate to larks, pipits and finches but kestrels are capable of taking such quarry as fieldfares, turtle doves and lapwing.
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Although this is desert, there is an incredible diversity of bird life along the river and in other areas of the park - mourning doves, American kestrel falcons, nighthawks and brown thrashers are just a few of the birds that call it home.
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Pigeons are predominant, but, as you explore, you see sparrows and bluebirds and flickers and blue jays and wrens and kestrels and starlings and robins.
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The array of birds included a hen harrier, barn owls, kingfishers, sparrowhawks, long-eared owls, kestrels and woodpeckers.
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The predators included 13 raptors, ranging from great-horned owls to the American kestrel, and a domestic cat and a ferret.
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The kestrel is the world's most perfect hawk," the Raptor Observatory's Allen Fish said.
Undefined
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Several key spots for viewing the lesser kestrel are at ancient monasteries built into cliffs along narrow dry streambeds that wind down to the Jordan River.
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At nesting time the parents become bold and pugnacious attacking crows, magpies, cuckoos and kestrels crossing their territory.
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It is an important wintering ground for European migratory birds such as the white stork, the lesser kestrel, the Eurasian golden oriole, the Eurasian cuckoo and other wading birds.
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The couple collected breeds of birds from every continent, including pheasants, herons, ibis, kestrels and buzzards.
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Peregrines were investigated less intensively than kestrels because of their known preference for birds as opposed to mammalian prey.
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American kestrels, smallest of North America's falcons, migrate at about the same time as the jays and flickers.
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Mason told her what birds ' pictures sold the best to magazines and stock agencies: eagles, hawks, owls, falcons, osprey, and kestrels.
FLIGHT LESSONS
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The couple collected breeds of birds from every continent, including pheasants, herons, ibis, kestrels and buzzards.
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As Leon Kestrel, the Master-Mummer," suggested Parker, who read railway-stall detective stories on the principle of the 'busman's holiday.
Whose Body?
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Birds of prey include kestrel (Falco tinnunculus), Montagu's harrier (Circus pygargus), and steppe eagle (Aquila rapax).
Alai-Western Tian Shan steppe
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Over 100 boxes were erected on a new polder and a large proportion were occupied by kestrels in the first season.
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Boasting buzzards, merlins, kestrels, peregrines, and ospreys, the county has ten of a total UK species of 15-making it one of the nation's key habitats.
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Children were thrilled to be able to stroke a beautiful barn owl, while an enormous eagle owl, a tawny owl, a kestrel and a turkey vulture called George looked on.
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Also part of this cycle is L'Aquilone du Estrellas (The Kite of Stars) (published by Strange Horizons - go now!), Ang Dalaga at Ang Buaia (The Maiden and the Crocodile) (published in Ab Ovo#1 by Kestrel Studios), and a few others.
Archive 2003-01-01
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Gone were flocks of starlings feeding along the runway; no kestrels hawking on the infields for small mammals; egrets, herons, crows, gulls, and geese all but disappeared.
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The result is the area has become a wildlife sanctuary with otters returning, and residents including white egrets, herons, kestrels and dozens of wild flowers.
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Then Kestrel called them all together-boy and man, warrior and outrunner, and sentry and firekeeper.
The Dark Queen
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For the kestrel is a most insulting creature towards the bigger birds.
Afoot in England
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Birds such as grouse, crows, quail, partridge, nightjars, cuckoos, shrikes, larks, pipits, merlins, harriers, kestrels and buzzards would all have been seen.
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Ten species of waterfowl nest around the lake; kestrels and buzzards can be spotted in the woodland; and brown hares, stoats, weasels, grey and red squirrels can also be seen.
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The Bird Castle offers protection to smaller birds which can enter through the two-inch mesh, but the holes are small enough to keep out cats or birds of prey like kestrels.
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I always find it unnerving to throttle back large piston aero engines to idle in flight, and the Kestrel was no exception.
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Male kestrels display to attract females by climbing high, calling, then diving fast and steeply before climbing again repeatedly.
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After owls, U.K. government figures identify kestrels, common buzzards, and peregrine falcons as other raptors most likely to end up as roadkill.
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The high casualty rate among smaller birds can be partly attributed to the depredations of their natural predators, the sparrow hawk and kestrel.
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It is an important wintering ground for European migratory birds such as the white stork, the lesser kestrel, the Eurasian golden oriole, the Eurasian cuckoo and other wading birds.
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Wild bird cover crops, an otter holt and boxes for owls, kestrels and bats all contribute to wildlife diversity.
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Kestrels eat voles, mice and shrews, small birds, insects and earthworms.
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Other birds include: the endemic Seychelles bulbul Hypsipetes crassirostris, blue pigeon Alectroenas pulcherrima, Seychelles sunbird Nectarinia dussamieri, Seychelles kestrel Falco araea and an endemic cave-nesting swiftlet Collocalia francica elaphra.
Vallée de Mai Nature Reserve, Seychelles
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Back on the tops, a flock of fieldfares had gathered in a pasture but were soon frightened off by a kestrel.
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With plenty of smaller birds and rabbits to prey on, all around the island kestrels hover, buzzards glide and peregrine falcons swoop.
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On the M40 they have replaced the kestrel as the common bird of prey.
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A kestrel hovers in one spot over a meadow, then moves on, only to hover again in a new location.
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A more extreme development of this pattern is seen in the kestrel, peregrine and buzzard prey assemblages.
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Other globally threatened species recorded in this ecoregion include wattled crane (Bugeranus carunculatus, VU), which has its main breeding populations in the wetlands of Zambia, including the Kafue Flats and the Bangweulu and Busanga swamps, corncrake (Crex crex, VU), lesser kestrel (Falco naumanni, VU), great snipe (Gallinago media) and shoebill stork (Balaeniceps rex).
Zambezian flooded grasslands
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TeleGeography's GlobalComms Database says that Telecel Zimbabwe, the country's second largest cellco, is owned by Telecel Globe (60%, formerly Telecel International), and the Empowerment Corporation (40%), itself comprising exiled businessman, James Makamba's Kestrel (23%), IEG
British Blogs
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I've owned an American kestrel and a Harris hawk, and I exercised the peregrines at the sanctuary.
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And kestrels, skuas, loons and twenty other species of birds.
THE BROKEN GOD
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After owls, U.K. government figures identify kestrels, common buzzards, and peregrine falcons as other raptors most likely to end up as roadkill.
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Biologists live-captured dozens of owls, kestrels, hawks and peregrine falcons, which might have fed on poisoned rats, and temporarily held them in captivity.
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The enemies are not only humans but many other predators that consider rodent meat very tasty, snakes, large lizards, small and large mammals and birds of prey especially owls, kestrels, and falcons.
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The most common bird of prey is the kestrel, which feeds chiefly on rodents such as mice and voles but will occasionally take small birds, beetles, small frogs, etc.
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When Derian entered, he found Earl Kestrel seated on a campstool, making notes in a leather-bound book resting on a collapsible table.
Through Wolfs Eyes
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The most common bird of prey is the kestrel, which feeds chiefly on rodents such as mice and voles but will occasionally take small birds, beetles, small frogs, etc.
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The kestrel flew frightened away down the length of the canal.
FIELD OF BLOOD
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Pigeons are predominant, but, as you explore, you see sparrows and bluebirds and flickers and blue jays and wrens and kestrels and starlings and robins.
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Otters, badgers, kestrels, lapwing, buzzards and kingfishers are just a few of the animals and birds under threat along the Clanrye River between the Belfast and Tandragee Roads north of Newry.
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There's a kestrel there looks like it's going to be extinct some time soon.
SACRAMENT
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The diverse vegetation communities support a notable resident and migratory bird fauna, including cliff species such as fox-kestrel Falco alopex, Gabar goshawk Melierax gabar, yellow-billed shrike Corvinella corvina scarlet-chested sunbird Chalcomitra senegalensis,, rose-ringed parakeet Psittacula krameri, cliff chat Thamnolea cinnamomeiventris (abundant) and rock dove Columbia livia.
Cliffs of Bandiagara (Land of the Dogons), Mali
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The southern bald ibis (Geronticus calvus VU), Cape vulture (Gyps coprotheres VU) and wintering lesser kestrel (Falco naumanni VU) are other globally threatened bird species that occur in the ecoregion.
Drakensberg alti-montane grasslands and woodlands
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The kestrel is the bird known in England as the windhover, on account of its habit of hovering in mid-air on rapidly-vibrating wings before pouncing on the lizard or other small fry, for which it is ever on the watch.
Birds of the Indian Hills
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I see Kestrel's body fly backwards, her face stunned and confused, the pince-nez flying off and upwards.
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The high casualty rate among smaller birds can be partly attributed to the depredations of their natural predators, the sparrow hawk and kestrel.
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Most observations relate to larks, pipits and finches but kestrels are capable of taking such quarry as fieldfares, turtle doves and lapwing.
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I start with a low whistle, twist it, pitch it higher and thinner till the kestrel treads air.
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Pigeons are predominant, but, as you explore, you see sparrows and bluebirds and flickers and blue jays and wrens and kestrels and starlings and robins.
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The Ende's consider the birds - eagles, falcons, hawks, owls and kestrels - as part of their family.
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Farmland birds that fared particularly well included kestrels, greenfinches and stock doves.
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Otters, badgers, kestrels, lapwing, buzzards and kingfishers are just a few of the animals and birds under threat along the Clanrye River between the Belfast and Tandragee Roads north of Newry.
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Disturbance after eggs are laid provides opportunities for predation by carrion crows, jays, kestrels, magpies, foxes and mink.
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The region is an Endemic Bird Area with, on the coast, jackass penguin Spheniscus demersens, blue crane Anthropoides paradiseus, Cape vulture Gyps coprotheres, black eagle Aquila verreauxii, martial eagle Polemaetus bellicosus, fish eagle Haliaeetus vocifer, black harrier Circus maurus, lanner falcon Falco biarmicus and lesser kestrel Falco naumanni.
Cape Floral Protected Areas, South Africa
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McAnally looked at the fluttering wing beat of the hunting kestrel.
FIELD OF BLOOD
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Also, from my reading the kestrel is full-grown ... and a male.
The Bird Below Is an American Kestrel...Not a Red-Tailed Hawk ...Which Makes the Story Even More Amazing
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The last thing she was aware of as the light took her was echoes of that cry that felt as though it were torn from Theo's very soul, a cry as lorn and bereaved as a lone kestrel on the open sea.
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The kestrel is the most fertile; for this is nearly the only bird of prey which drinks, and its moisture, both innate and acquired, along with its heat is favourable to generative products.
On the Generation of Animals
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A few notable birds I've seen flying over are a lesser kestrel and some unidentified swifts (probably Common Swifts).
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The array of birds included a hen harrier, barn owls, kingfishers, sparrowhawks, long-eared owls, kestrels and woodpeckers.
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The cartwright (whose name Kestrel still did not know) nodded, respect in his eyes, presumably that Robin was so well-informed.
The Robin And The Kestrel
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You hear that cry running through the background of your thoughts, as lorn and bereaved as a lone kestrel on the open sea.
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The array of birds included a hen harrier, barn owls, kingfishers, sparrowhawks, long-eared owls, kestrels and woodpeckers.
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But according to Cooper (1980) ‘in anatomical structure there is no significant difference between [the intertarsal joints of Polyboroides] and the corresponding joints of Kestrel, Tawny eagle or Black kite’ (p. 98).
Archive 2006-05-01
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A kestrel is a type of falcon, like the peregrine but smaller.
Through Wolfs Eyes
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With plenty of smaller birds and rabbits to prey on, all around the island kestrels hover, buzzards glide and peregrine falcons swoop.
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Although this is desert, there is an incredible diversity of bird life along the river and in other areas of the park - mourning doves, American kestrel falcons, nighthawks and brown thrashers are just a few of the birds that call it home.
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With plenty of smaller birds and rabbits to prey on, all around the island kestrels hover, buzzards glide and peregrine falcons swoop.
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Disturbance after eggs are laid provides opportunities for predation by carrion crows, jays, kestrels, magpies, foxes and mink.
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The couple collected breeds of birds from every continent, including pheasants, herons, ibis, kestrels and buzzards.
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A common kestrel chases a barn owl, which is carrying a mouse.
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Kestrel left her to clean herself up, and joined the cartwright in the clear and rain-washed morning.
The Robin And The Kestrel
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On the one hand you have the poor consumers, those who are drinking "the park bench bottle" that is, the empties under park benches - or, in practice, whatever brand offers the most alcohol for the least money: the likes of Tennents Super, Kestrel Super and Skol Super, all at eight per cent or more alcohol.
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph
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The kestrel, a female aged about two, is deliberately nameless so that it does not get tame.
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As they follow the coast, kestrels often hover above marshes and grasslands, waiting to pounce on rodents, small birds, and insects.
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Ten species of waterfowl nest around the lake; kestrels and buzzards can be spotted in the woodland; and brown hares, stoats, weasels, grey and red squirrels can also be seen.
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Another gadget that sometimes assists in windy or gusting wind situations is a Kestrel or a Caldwell wind meter.
No B.S.
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Birds of prey also suffered, with many sparrowhawks and kestrels too badly injured to survive, though many owls were successfully treated and released.
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Falcons and kestrels can be found almost everywhere and capture the imagination wherever they soar.
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A kestrel commanded the long valley views, rabbits scampered unconcerned.
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Feeding on berries or with a mouthful of insects to take to chicks in their nests, images included blackbirds, robins, thrushes and many other birds rarely seen such as the bullfinch, chaffinch, woodpecker, kingfisher and kestrel.
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Birds such as grouse, crows, quail, partridge, nightjars, cuckoos, shrikes, larks, pipits, merlins, harriers, kestrels and buzzards would all have been seen.
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They are important hunting grounds for the kestrel and barn owl.
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Most observations relate to larks, pipits and finches but kestrels are capable of taking such quarry as fieldfares, turtle doves and lapwing.
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Well, I've only read one book about a bird before, Barry Hines's heartbreaking A Kestrel for a Knave, later retitled Kes to tie in with Ken Loach's film adaptation of that name.
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With the engine throttled right back, I was once again very aware of the very slow and somewhat erratic airborne idling characteristics of the Kestrel.
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A kestrel is still a hawk, but the amazing part of the (revised) story is that Juan Hurino is taking the bird to the vet anyway; even though the kestrel was probably attracted to his own chickens.
The Bird Below Is an American Kestrel...Not a Red-Tailed Hawk ...Which Makes the Story Even More Amazing
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A pair of kestrels kept the grouse quiet but I didn't see any merlins though perhaps heard the plaintive cry of the other fashionable bird hereabouts, namely the golden plover.
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Lady in Red and Pure Platinum are now the flagship wines of Kestrel and have allowed the Prosser winery to gain that elusive notice ... a tough thing to do when there are 500 other Washington wine labels clamoring for our attention.
Tri-City Herald: Front
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Birds such as grouse, crows, quail, partridge, nightjars, cuckoos, shrikes, larks, pipits, merlins, harriers, kestrels and buzzards would all have been seen.
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Boasting buzzards, merlins, kestrels, peregrines, and ospreys, the county has ten of a total UK species of 15-making it one of the nation's key habitats.
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The diverse vegetation communities support a notable resident and migratory bird fauna, including cliff species such as fox-kestrel Falco alopex, Gabar goshawk Melierax gabar, yellow-billed shrike Corvinella corvina scarlet-chested sunbird Chalcomitra senegalensis,, rose-ringed parakeet Psittacula krameri, cliff chat Thamnolea cinnamomeiventris (abundant) and rock dove Columbia livia.
Cliffs of Bandiagara (Land of the Dogons), Mali