#kestrals

[hometoursandotherstuff]

[uncharismatic-fauna]

Uncharismatic Fact of the Day

Despite being a bird of prey, falcons are actually more closely related to parrots than they are to hawks or eagles. In 2008 it was discovered that falcons and kestrels-- now classified in the order Falconiformes-- share a more recent common ancestor with parrots than they do with other birds of prey, which fall under the order Accipitriformes.

(Images: A rainbow lorikeet (Trichoglossus moluccanus) by Richard Taylor via Wikimedia Commons, and an American Kestrel (Falco sparverius) by Yeray Seminario)

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[lookatthisbabybird]

baby kestrals and their dad (source)

[jdba-creatives-blog]

Snapshots of the East Coast http://jdbashton.com/snapshots-of-the-east-coast/ "If you’ve been anywhere near our Instagram, Tumblr or Facebook pages, I’m sure you’ve noticed that we spent the end of March traveling up the East Coast on a combined research, location scouting and film making adventure."

Photographs by: Jason Fourie, Desmond Bowles and Jamie Dimitra Ashton

[applepiproductions]

Flying kestrals