...—The beautiful Peregrine Falcon is rare, but the Kestrel is found almost universally;and the bold and daring Goshawkwherever wild crags and precipices afford safe breeding places...
J. Emerson Tennent 「Sketches of the Natural History of Ceylon」
...At such times it has the appearanceof a delicately coloured miniature kestrel orhobby...
W. H. Hudson 「Birds and Man」
...They are often seen, as Darwin remarks, hovering likea Kestrel over the grass, and then dashing down to seize their prey...
P. L. Sclater 「Argentine Ornithology, Volume I (of 2)」
...), and myself were walking from theEducation Office to Grote Street School, a Kestrel was seen on thegrass in a small square...
John Albert Leach 「An Australian Bird Book」
...The members of the party were astonishedto see the Kestrel rise carrying a bird, possibly a Sparrow,in its talons...
John Albert Leach 「An Australian Bird Book」
...173 Nankeen Kestrel, Windhover, Mosquito Hawk, Sparrowhawk(e), Cerchneis cenchroides, A...
John Albert Leach 「An Australian Bird Book」
...His "Happy Family" generallyconsisted of a cat or two, some kittens, rats, mice, rabbits, guineapigs, an owl, a kestrel falcon, starlings, goldfinches, canaries,etc...
Harrison Weir 「Our Cats and All About Them」
...They are the kite and the kestrel...
Douglas Dewar 「Birds of the Indian Hills」
...The kestrel (Tinnunculus alaudarius) is perhaps the easiest of allthe birds of prey to identify...
Douglas Dewar 「Birds of the Indian Hills」
...It is on account of this peculiar habit ofhovering in the air that the kestrel is often called the wind-hoverin England...
Douglas Dewar 「Birds of the Indian Hills」
...The kestrel...
Douglas Dewar 「Birds of the Indian Hills」
...Of the migratory birds of prey the kestrel is perhaps the firstto arrive; the osprey and the peregrine falcon are among thelast...
Douglas Dewar 「A Bird Calendar for Northern India」
...But in autumn and winter, game-birdsare fully fledged and being quite able to take care of themselvesare by no means liable to fall a prey to the Kestrel...
Rev. C. A. Johns 「British Birds in their Haunts」
...The Kestrel was formerly trained to hunt small birds, and inthe court of Louis XIII was taught to hawk for Bats...
Rev. C. A. Johns 「British Birds in their Haunts」
...Itsprincipal enemies are the Kestrel and the Barn Owl...
Various 「Natural History in Anecdote」
..."I had," says he, "the pleasure, this summer, of seeing the kestrel engaged in an occupation entirely new to me—hawking after cockchaffers late in the evening...
Samuel Griswold Goodrich 「Illustrative Anecdotes of the Animal Kingdom」
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