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Perhaps the most colorful raptor in the world, the American Kestral is the most common falcon in North America.
It is found from Alaska to Tierre del Fuego, and in towns as well as wild lands.
Cool Facts:
Although hover hunting is conspicuous, this foraging method actually is used rather infrequently.
It is used most often when suitable perches are not available, or when winds are strong enough to create updraft favorable to hovering.
In winter in many southern parts of the range, female and male American Kestrals use different habitats.
The female uses the preferred more open habitat, and the male uses areas with more trees.
This situation appears to be the result of the females migrating south first and establishing winter territories.
The males are then forced into the less preferred areas.
Nesting Kestrals back up, raise their tails and squirt feces onto the walls of the nest cavity.
The feces dry on the cavity walls and stay off the nestlings.
The nest gets to be a smelly place, with feces on the walls and uneaten parts of small animals on the floor.
Habitat:
Breeds in a variety of open habitats, including meadows, grasslands, deserts, parkland, agricultural fields, urban and suburban areas.
Food:
Large insects, small mammals, reptiles, amphibians and Birds.
Nesting:
Nests in cavities in trees, in buildings and in nest boxes. No material added to the nest.
Behavior:
Watch for prey from tall perches such as trees and telephone poles.
Also hovers and drops on prey.
Conservation:
Increased greatly with historical deforestation of North America.
No significant trend across North America, but some local increases and decreases.
Other Falcons you may see in Florida are the Peregrine Falcon and the Northern Crested Caracara
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