Kestrels

Welcome to the only kestrel domain name, that actually is about kestrels. Kestrels are my favorite group of birds and I started this site because it seemed silly that all the kestrel domain names were for consultants and aircraft and such. One of my long term objectives is to eventually make the contents of my master's research entitled "Benefits of breeding territoriality in the American Kestrel (Falco sparverius)" available on this site.

Kestrels are a wide spread group of small falcons that are represented on every major continent except Antartica. Wikipedia has a nice kestrel page

For now here are a few links about Kestrels:

• Kestrels in General
  • The US Government also provides the ITIS search service, and lists 11 species of kestrel. The botom of the page for each is a button to search various online resources including CITES and USFWS sites for entries on a given species.
• American Kestrel (Falco sparverius)
  • USGS info on the American Kestrel
  • A nice picture and brief description at eNature.com
  • A nice write up at birding.com
  • A nice page detailing kestrels living in nest boxes
  • Cornell Laboratory of Ornithology species account and bird house network
  • The Hawk Conservancy Trust has a nice picture of a hovering adult male kestrel
  • Videos of kestrels in Chile and Cuba can be found in the Internet Bird Collection (great demonstration of color variations in different sub species!)
• Eurasian Kestrel (Falco tinnunculus)
  • Amazing videos of nestling Eurasian Kestrels in Israel. Note particularly the video of 3 week old chicks which has exstensive footage of competition among nestlings for food!

Other stuff I have on the web

This domain also hosts my website about the ancient Chineese game of Go, (go.kestrel.nu) and a site for a small peice of freeware I wrote (flashcard.kestrel.nu)

Another piece of freeware I have written recently is KestrelPaste

My open source project that is currently stalled but I hope to resume some time next year, time permitting is called birdpix and the demostration site will be at www.birdpictures.org

Comming soon: My photo server (this is what I am doing as a precursor to birdpix)