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The kestrel has also been reported to have killed scorpions, snakes, [40] bats, [41] and squirrels. [42] The kestrel is able to maintain high population densities, at least in part because of the broad scope of its diet. The American kestrel's primary mode of hunting is by perching and waiting for prey to come near.
Nankeen kestrel or Australian kestrel, Falco cenchroides, found in Australia and New Guinea; Common kestrel or Eurasian kestrel, Falco tinnunculus, found in Europe, Asia, and Africa; Rock kestrel, Falco rupicolus, found in South Africa; Basal lineage(s) of true kestrels Greater kestrel, Falco rupicoloides, found in Eastern to South Africa; Fox ...
The common kestrel (Falco tinnunculus), also known as the European kestrel, Eurasian kestrel or Old World kestrel, is a species of predatory bird belonging to the kestrel group of the falcon family Falconidae. In the United Kingdom, where no other kestrel species commonly occurs, it is generally just called "kestrel". [2]
This list of reptiles of California includes the snakes, turtles and lizards found in the US state of California. [e] Endemic species . [i] Introduced species .
The spotted kestrel are distributed throughout Indonesia. [2] Spread through Wallacea and Java, the spotted kestrel inhabits grasslands with scattered trees, lightly wooded cultivation, and the edges of primary and tall secondary forest. Along logging roads, it occasionally penetrates forests, and sometimes inhabits clearings within forested areas.
A rarely seen deep sea fish resembling a serpent was found floating dead on the ocean surface off the San Diego coast and was brought ashore for study, marine experts said. The silvery, 12-foot ...
Dickinson's kestrel (Falco dickinsoni) is a bird of prey of southern and eastern Africa belonging to the falcon family Falconidae. It is named after John Dickinson, an English physician and missionary who collected the type specimen .
The nankeen kestrel is a species of the genus Falco, allied to a subgenus Tinnunculus.They were first described by Nicholas Vigors and Thomas Horsfield in 1827. Further descriptions — regarded as synonyms for the species — were published: Cerchneis immaculata Brehm, 1845; the later name Cerchneis unicolor by Alexander Milligan was published in Emu in 1904; and that author's name appearing ...