kestrels

The kestrels were the most numerous, but there were many sparrow-hawks.

The Amateur Poacher Richard Jefferies 1867

The design, which is used by the Ducks Unlimited Greenwing program, may even attract other cavity nesting birds such as kestrels, tree swallows, great crested flycatchers or screech owls.

Stuttgart Daily Leader Homepage RSS Ducks Unlimited 2010

Just opposite the owls are cages holding about 75 American kestrels.

Duck, duck, owl: Patuxent research center is for the birds John Kelly 2010

Actually, the primary effect was on raptors – peregrine falcons, kestrels, various eagles – and it has taken a long time to get the DDT and DDE out of the eco-system.

Think Progress » McCain Backs Down To Hannity: ‘I Never Quite Understood’ Global Warming 2010

This diversity encourages many native pollinators such as solitary bees, and helps encourage many species of native birds including predatory birds such as a variety of hawks, kestrels and owls.

Video: Back In the Hunt: New Winemaker Bridges Generations 2009

Voles depend on rough grassland, so the unstoppable drive towards increased agricultural productivity, and the mania for tidying up fields and verges, is bad news for these little rodents, which are the kestrels' staple food.

Birdwatch: Kestrel 2011

Just opposite the owls are cages holding about 75 American kestrels.

Duck, duck, owl: Patuxent research center is for the birds John Kelly 2010

For example, there are now 1,000 Mauritius kestrels, up from just four birds in the 1970s, partly through captive breeding and reintroduction into the wild.

A War Against Extinction Gautam Naik 2010

But she is as enthusiastic about her new launch, stuffyourrucksack. com, as she is about kestrels.

Kate Humble's innovation: stuffyourrucksack.com 2010

BH: Actually, in NYC we have peregrines nesting on our buildings and bridges, red-tails in our parks, kestrels in 19th century cornices, and ospreys and northern harriers in Jamaica Bay.

Knowing a hawk from a handsaw, pt 1 2008