kestrel

1 Nankeen kestrels slice through clouds of bright orange butterflies.

2 “But even a thrush has wings!” cried the kestrel, speaking for the first time in his sharp-beaked alarm.

3 He told everyone about the songs of canaries, the diet of kestrels, and the extraordinary migration patterns of nightingales.

4 Similar to the screeches of the raptors that inhabited the region many millennia ago, the researchers say that the instruments imitated the sounds of the Eurasian kestrel and Eurasian sparrowhawk.

5 The hanger might have little or no undergrowth but at least the branches gave cover from the sky: and kestrels, they soon realized, were common in this solitude.

6 Dropping out of the sky by twos and ones came the goshawk, the kestrel, the red-tailed, and the sharp-shinned—the bird club.

7 Earlier drafts of my latest novel, You, contained an over-abundance of tors and kestrels, and only when the bracken and gorse were severely hacked back, and then subdued and trimmed again, was I satisfied.

8 At the same moment the kestrel, all beak and talons, hit the loose earth immediately outside like a missile thrown from the tree above.

9 There are elk and bear, kestrels and ravens, tall grasses and deer, and trout in deep, cool pools.

10 He does not see the point in bringing any of those pigeony things up when he could be reading more about kestrels.

11 I’ve seen pilot whales, dolphins, seals, barn owls, kestrels, peregrines and choughs, met old Cornish fishermen and made new local friends.

12 The kestrels were disturbing, but Hazel had been right when he guessed that a healthy, full-grown rabbit was too large a quarry for them.

13 The bodies of about 50 dead hares, a barn owl and a kestrel were dumped outside Broughton Community Shop in Hampshire on Friday, police said.

14 “You can drive a hundred or two hundred miles outside London and not see a single kestrel,” reported another.

15 The kestrel had not yet seen it, but could hardly fail to do so as soon as it moved.

16 No doubt this is why most grown rabbits will not remain under a hovering kestrel.

17 The mice were numerous and so were the kestrels.

18 The bodies of about 50 dead hares, a barn owl and a kestrel were dumped outside Broughton Community Shop in Hampshire earlier this month.

19 The kestrel drape upon a mouse, and the poor mouse, transfixed with those needle talons, cries out in agony has one squeal of K-e-e-e!

20 Both weekends will offer birds of prey demonstrations at 1 and 3 p.m. in which wildlife experts will display the red-tailed hawk, the American kestrel and the Eastern screech owl, among other species.

1 隼属

hobby

2 红隼

windhover

3 茶隼

windhover

4 隼科

hobby falcon peregrine gyrfalcon merlin saker falconet lanner caracara Eleonora's falcon

5 隼

falcon hawk