How to Use kestrel in a Sentence

kestrel

noun

• The pitch range was very similar to that of two kinds of raptors known to nest in the area, Eurasian kestrels and sparrow hawks.
  — Franz Lidz, New York Times, 28 Aug. 2023
• The American kestrel is the smallest, with a wingspan that can reach about 2 feet.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 10 Oct. 2019
• Late in the afternoon on Sept. 25 staff members brought out a kestrel and a sharp-shinned hawk for release.
  — Paul A. Smith, Journal Sentinel, 8 Oct. 2022
• The 25 fledglings born this year bring the project’s overall total to 82 kestrels since its inception.
  — Mike Danahey, Elgin Courier-News, 29 June 2018
• Notable birds this past week have been a great gray owl, an American kestrel and a lone common snipe.
  — John Schandelmeier, Anchorage Daily News, 15 May 2021
• In her care was a kestrel, peregrine falcon, barn owl, bald and golden eagle.
  — Denise Coffey, Courant Community, 29 May 2018
• The island is home to more than two hundred species of birds, including kestrels, great horned owls, and little blue herons.
  — Elisabeth Eaves, The New Yorker, 18 Mar. 2020
• The kestrel’s keepers wanted to keep him engaged with the public after his injury.
  — Cathy Free, Washington Post, 31 Oct. 2023
• Meet two of North America’s smallest birds of prey: the American kestrel and eastern screech owl.
  — Sara Ervin Walser, Laurel Leader, 28 June 2018
• Buongiorno, too, you kestrel in the blue, ignorant of tech genius and real estate.
  — W. S. Di Piero, The New Yorker, 23 Mar. 2020
• Based on bone measurements, researchers concluded the bird was a Eurasian kestrel.
  — Claire Bugos, Smithsonian Magazine, 22 Aug. 2020
• American kestrels are the smallest falcon found in North America, only about the size of a robin, Joray said.
  — Mike Danahey, Elgin Courier-News, 20 June 2018
• Officials say rare bird species such as bobolinks, grasshopper sparrows, and American kestrels breed on the grassland.
  — Frank Kummer, Philly.com, 9 Apr. 2018
• For example, kings could fly gyrfalcons, and servants could fly kestrels.
  — Jennifer Billock, Smithsonian, 15 Nov. 2019
• His interests turned to falconry and keeping birds of prey: a red-tailed hawk, a Cooper’s hawk, an American kestrel.
  — Sam Whiting, San Francisco Chronicle, 4 Nov. 2021
• Or perhaps because owls often are attacked and harassed during the day by carrion crows, kestrels and other birds.
  — James Gorman, New York Times, 2 Sep. 2019
• Measurements of bones in a bird mummy suggest the animal was probably a Eurasian kestrel.
  — Clara Moskowitz, Scientific American, 4 Dec. 2020
• Both expert hunters, the American kestrel uses its acrobatic prowess, while the eastern screech owl is a stealthy silent hunter.
  — Sara Ervin Walser, Laurel Leader, 28 June 2018
• His father owned mining property near Carson City, Nev., where Chavez came across three young kestrel falcons that appeared to be abandoned.
  — Hugo Martin, Los Angeles Times, 18 Aug. 2019
• Both expert hunters, the American kestrel uses its acrobatic prowess, while the eastern screech owl is a stealthy silenthunter.
  — Sara Ervin Walser, Laurel Leader, 17 May 2018
• Similar to the screeches of the raptors that inhabited the region many millennia ago, the researchers say that the instruments imitated the sounds of the Eurasian kestrel and Eurasian sparrowhawk.
  — Sam Walters, Discover Magazine, 13 June 2023
• In that time, the records have helped to establish that bluebirds, for example, are now doing well after a period of decline, but that the American kestrel and northern flicker seem to be scarcer.
  — Adrian Higgins, The Denver Post, 28 Apr. 2017
• At the museum gate, a friendly docent greeted us with a bird on his gloved fist that Millet immediately identified as a kestrel.
  — Christine Smallwood, New York Times, 6 Oct. 2022
• Researchers found the cat was less than five months old, and separation of its vertebrae suggest it was strangled to death, while the bird was identified as a Eurasian kestrel, thanks to virtual bone measurement.
  — Jack Guy, CNN, 21 Aug. 2020
• Johnston and his colleagues identify it as likely being a kestrel, a kind of falcon, the most commonly mummified raptor from ancient Egypt.
  — Matt Simon, Wired, 20 Aug. 2020
• But Ferrisburgh, an American kestrel with an injured wing, is headlining art classes in Vermont and drawing crowds with his talented talons.
  — Cathy Free, Washington Post, 31 Oct. 2023
• While broad-wings are the big show, other species commonly seen during the fall migrations include falcons, sharp-shinned hawks, American kestrels, ospreys, and northern harriers.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 10 Oct. 2019
• The conservancy provides habitats for more than 140 species of birds, including wild turkeys, American kestrels and Cooper’s hawks, and a number of geocaches are hidden throughout the property.
  — Sarah Meehan, Howard County Times, 3 May 2018
• This new-for-2019 rangefinder has it’s own internal ballistics calculator, and is also Bluetooth compatible with your phone and the kestrel elite weather meter.
  — Tyler Freel, Outdoor Life, 13 Nov. 2019
• Overhead, a kestrel appeared, unsuccessfully pursuing the pigeon to ground.
  — John Schandelmeier, Anchorage Daily News, 2 Oct. 2022

Last Updated: 16 Oct 2024