Labels:animal | bird | bottle | box | earth | fence | grass | person | plaything | poster | sky | sparrow hawk | tree | water | windowpane OCR: American Kestrel Falco sparverius This small, familiar falcon of open country, with a wide distribution across North America It is one of our smallest hawks with pronounced plumage differences between males and females Immature kestrels are unique among North American of prey in having different male pue female plumages The kestrel i often seen perched atop power poles or hydro lines It is a graceful flier pue I commonly I hovers in one spot, examining I the below for insect rodent prey The most abundant IO North American hawks the American I <estrel breeds well in captivity and has been i used to study the harmful effects of pesticides like DDT The American Kestrel is the smallest North. American falcon anc one of the smallest hawks on the continent. Females are slightly smaller than I ma ...
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