Rouge National Urban Park - Birds的日誌

The American Kestrel, Ontario’s smallest falcon. They are usually observed perched upon phone lines/poles near open fields where they scope out their prey of mice, voles, beetles, dragonflies, butterflies, frogs, grasshoppers and smaller birds. Their occasional appetite for sparrows as part of their diet is thought possible reason this bird was previously called the Sparrow Hawk. While out hunting they need also stay vigilant as not to become prey themselves to larger birds such as the Red-tailed and Cooper’s hawks found in the same habitat.

This months sighting by @galloots13 . A colourful male Kestrel identified by the slate blue head and wings that offset his copper coloured back.
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Falco sparverius , photo credit @galloots13