Replica American Kestrel Skull OFFLINE002 and even caimans before swallowing

and even caimans before swallowing them whole

this omnivore feeds on fruits

frogs and crustaceans

and communicate using a variety of vocalizations

This species has evolved a long sticky tongue that is specialized for lapping its small prey from within their mounds

Replica American Kestrel Skull OFFLINE002 and even caimans before swallowingThe American kestrel is the smallest and most common of the North American falcons. The more colorful male is rusty with blue gray wings, a pale underside and two black stripes on its face. Fond of perching on telephone wires or fence posts, kestrels feed on insects and small vertebrates. Kestrels have the ability to hover directly over their prey before dropping on top of it. Sometimes wrongly called a sparrow hawk, due to its diet of small birds