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ID Help: American Kestrel
The Peregrine Chick:
First (bottom) photo is a female American Kestrel.
Second (middle) photo is adult male American Kestrelm
Third (top) photo is American Kestrel chowing down on something much smaller than a flicker. The Northern Flicker is eastern population, formerly Yellow-shafted Flicker. Yellow-shafted Flickers have flight feathers with yellow shafts, the western population is the Red-shafted for reasons that are probably easy to guess. Easy way to spot - the black malar patch (look under the chin) is black in eastern birds, red in western bird.
Great photos!!
Kinderchick:
Beautiful photo of the Merlin/Kestral :-\, rcf. I have a difficult time making the distinction between the two. But I have no doubt that Dennis and eagle are correct. :)
carly:
Beautiful photos RCF! I don't know much about other bird species outside of our pefa's and the lunch snacks they enjoy but I'm always curious to learn more!
eagle63_1999:
--- Quote from: bcbird on August 20, 2010, 23:16 ---The bottom picture is perhaps the juvie then, as it doesn't have the usual reddish colouring of the adult kestral?
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Or it could be the female of the Kestrel species.
bcbird:
The bottom picture is perhaps the juvie then, as it doesn't have the usual reddish colouring of the adult kestral?
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