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Eurasian Kestrel - Netherlands / Beleef de Lente
birdcamfan:
The translation of Torenvalk is kind of cute "towering falcon". If anyone wants to translate the Dutch comments on the site, just google Dutch to English translation and cut and paste the comments into the translator. The translations come out to be rather entertaining but you get the gist of what is being discussed
The Peregrine Chick:
If you are looking for Common Kestrel in your bird books, they need to be European bird books, they aren't here in North America. The NA version is the smaller American Kestrel, similar in lots of ways though. I gave a link to the Wikipedia site on an earlier post and the information there is really very good.
maggieblue:
Irenkl you have probably already read TPC's post about the differences between the European and North American Kestrels.
I hope that the following link works as I am trying to post the translated page from the Italian cams forum that has pictures that identify their female and male Kestrels, Rebecca and Nembo. The male is paler and larger. Hope this helps.
http://translate.google.ca/translate?prev=hp&hl=en&js=n&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.birdcam.it%2Fforum%2Fviewtopic.php%3Ft%3D3899%26postdays%3D0%26postorder%3Dasc%26start%3D15&sl=it&tl=en
p.s. Rebecca just laid her first egg today ;D
eagle63_1999:
It's an European Kestrel and if my memory serves me correctly Tracy did say that they are bigger than our Kestrels.
irenekl:
Oh man, look how long that took me! I thought I could get here from the opening page of the Forum. (don't ask) Anyway, thank you so much. I'm here now and got it through a much more civilized way with your help.
back to my falcon identification issue. I'll have to see them all again and snap a picture.
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