Kestrel Hawk
Uploaded: April 03, 2018 | Entered: April 03, 2018 00:24:52
The American kestrel sports many common nicknames, including, for instance, grasshopper hawk, killy hawk (after its killy, killy, killy call), short-winged hawk, windhover, house hawk, rusty-crowned falcon, and, more commonly, sparrow hawk. Early ornithologists thought these small falcons preferred sparrows as their primary prey and named them the “sparrowhawk.”
While kestrels share some similarities – for example, a hooked bill and sharp talons – with other relatives of the raptor group, they are in fact members of the falcon family (Falconidae), not the hawk family (Accipitridae). Their similarity to the Eurasian kestrel is the source of the “kestrel” name.
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Exif: F Number: 5, Exposure Bias Value: 0.00, ExposureTime: 1/800 seconds, Flash: did not fire, compulsory flash mode, ISO: 400, White balance: Auto white balance, FocalLength: 180.00 mm, Model: Canon EOS DIGITAL REBEL XSi
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