The Italian Kestrel Group consists of Giacomo Dell'Omo (dellomo@iss.it), David Costantini, Stefania Casagrande and Giuseppe di Lieto. The group deals primarily with evolutionary physiology of birds using the Eurasian kestrel (Falco tinnunculus) as a model species. Specifically, they are interested in the proximate and ultimate factors that affect the physiology of carotenoids and oxidative stress and the role that carotenoid-based colours play in the mate choice.
Read more on the The Italian Kestrel group page.
Museum collections often have skin collections of kestrels. I recently had the opportunity to spend some time viewing the kestrel skins at the Natural History Museum in Tring, United Kingdom. My main aim was to look at the distribution and differences in the skins of the Common Kestrel (Falco tinnunculus) but I also took some time looking at some of the other species, especially those for which there isn't a lot of information or photographs available.
Read more on the Kestrel Comparison Project page.
Rondeberg Private Nature Reserve has a colony of Rock Ketrels breeding in a quarry. It probably has the highest density of breeding kestrels in South Africa. Anthony van Zyl and Andrew Jenkins have been visting this quarry since 1999, counting the number of pairs, collecting breeding information and ringing the chicks and adults.
Anthony van Zyl, with the help of Andrew Jenkins and a number of the WCRRP volunteers monitor the Rock Kestrel population on the Cape Peninsula. This study was initiated in 1993, although there was a gap of information from 1995-1998 when Anthony van Zyl was based in Pretoria.
Read more on the Cape Peninsula Kestrel Project page.