American Kestrel (Falco sparverius) pictures

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	An extraordinary photo of a Fox that has caught a female American Kestrel (Falco sparverius). You will notice that the kestrel has a vole in its talons, so the fox obviously caught the kestrel on the ground, just after it had caught a vole.	J. Kendall
	A female American Kestrel (Falco sparverius) showing the brown back and tail.	Nigel Shaw
	A male American Kestrel (Falco sparverius) showing the wing, back and tail pattern.	Nigel Shaw
	A male American Kestrel (Falco sparverius) showing the wing pattern.	Nigel Shaw
	The head pattern of a male American Kestrel (Falco sparverius).	Nigel Shaw
	A male American Kestrel (Falco sparverius) showing plumage from the back. Compare sex differences with the female in the next picture.	Carol Ricciuto
	A female American Kestrel (Falco sparverius) showing plumage from the back. This bird is has started moulting and is growing two brand new centre tail feathers.  The centre tail feathers are the first of the tail feathers to be moulted.	Carol Ricciuto
Video footage	This first chick hatched on 7 July 2005 Mary Schoonover's American Kestrel (Falco sparverius) nest box. Video files are not allowed by my web provider, but I can email it to you if you would like to see it. The file is a 740KB Windows Media file (.wmv).	Mary Schoonover
	An uncompleted clutch of three eggs in an American Kestrel (Falco sparverius) nest box taken with a web cam in northeastern Vermont, USA.	Mary Schoonover
	A male American Kestrel (Falco sparverius) sitting on three eggs in a nest box in northeastern Vermont, USA.	Mary Schoonover
Video footage	A female American Kestrel (Falco sparverius) investigating the substrate in the nest box in northeastern Vermont, USA before the laying of the clutch. Video files are not allowed by my web provider, but I can email it to you if you would like to see it. The file is a 1.55MB Windows Media file (.wmv).	Mary Schoonover
Video footage	A male American Kestrel (Falco sparverius) displaying to a female in the nest box in northeastern Vermont, USA before the laying of the clutch. Video files are not allowed by my web provider, but I can email it to you if you would like to see it. The file is a 1.84MB Windows Media file (.wmv).	Mary Schoonover
	A female American Kestrel (Falco sparverius) sitting in a nest box.	Thomas May
	An unusual clutch of SEVEN eggs in an American Kestrel (Falco sparverius) nest box.	Thomas May