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What do kestrels look like? Adult male kestrels have chestnut coloured upperparts with heavy black spots. Their rumps and tails are blue-grey and the tail has a black subterminal bar with white tips.
How to identify. Kestrels are a familiar sight, with their pointed wings and long tail, hovering beside a roadside verge. Numbers of Kestrels have declined since the 1970s, probably as a result of changes in farming, and so it is included on the Amber List.
Kestrels can be spotted in local parks, on the moors and hawking the edge of farmland. But one of the most dramatic places to see it is along the coast, from the saltmarshes of Pagham Harbour in West Sussex, to the sand dunes of Formby Point in Lancashire and the beaches of Fife.
Quick facts. Common names: kestrel, common kestrel. Scientific name: Falco tinnunculus. Family: Falconidae (falcons) Habitat: grassland, farmland, upland, urban. Diet: voles, mice, shrews, birds and invertebrates. Predators: occasionally taken by larger birds of prey. Origin: native.
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At present, the link between potential factors and the population trend of Kestrels has not been established and new research is needed. In the meantime, landowners keen to offer suitable Kestrel habitat should provide grassy cover for small mammals.
The main period of decline in Britain occurred from the mid 1970s to the late 1980s and it has been linked to the effects of agricultural intensification on farmland habitats and their populations of small mammals (Gibbons et al. 1993), but it is interesting to notice that the number of nestlings fledged per breeding attempt had not declined, sugge...
At present the link between potential factors and the population trend of Kestrel has not been established and new research is needed. In the meantime, landowners keen to offer suitable kestrel habitat should provide grassy cover for small mammals. Conservation policies can encourage the provision of suitable habitat at a landscape scale by enablin...
How to identify. Kestrels are typically seen hovering, their pointed wings held out. Males have a grey head and tail with a prominent black band, a gingery-brown back and a creamy underside which is speckled with black. Females are similar, but with a more uniform brown back and dark bands on the tail.
Oct 3, 2021 · How Do You Identify a Kestrel? The common kestrel is an easy bird to identify. It is a small falcon, the smallest in Europe, similar in appearance to the hobbies and merlins but smaller with typically smaller, straighter wings.
