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Rescued American kestrel bird turns to painting after losing ability to fly. Camille Fine. USA TODAY. Have you ever wanted to make art in the presence of a bird of prey?
Known in Orkney as ‘moosie-haak’, kestrels are fierce hunters but have seriously declined and are now an amber-listed species ...
Birds of prey are apex predators, ruling the skies with razor-sharp talons and wings giant enough to envelop a full-grown man. They spend their lives at the top of the food chain because they have ...
Soaring through the skies of Missouri is a bird of prey smaller than the rest, but one that still makes a mighty impact. The American kestrel is a small falcon that is more common in Missouri ...
These nesting boxes were part of the DNR’s proposed solution to curb the birds’ population decline. The Iowa DNR and ...
Liberty, The Audubon Community Nature Center’s 20-year resident Bald Eagle, has two new roommates. Soren, a red-tailed hawk, and Cricket, an American Kestrel are the center’s new resident ...
Kestrels eat a variety of live prey items including small birds and rodents, lizards, and insects like grasshoppers. In turn they are eaten by larger birds of prey and snakes. Male American Kestrel ...
Many kestrel experts think it’s a combination of causes. “It’s just everything,” said Jean-Francois Therrien, a senior scientist at Hawk Mountain, a conservation group for birds of prey.
A busy hummingbird paid no mind to a wild falcon on Tuesday, September 24, flying extremely close to the bird of prey just after it ate a tasty dragonfly. Thomas Lancione captured this video in ...
Bird of Prey volunteer Janet Gonzalez holds Dulce, a 17-year-old “ambassador” red-tailed hawk used for teaching the public about the species. Four rehabilitated birds were released in Mission ...