It is set in Barnsley, South Yorkshire and tells of Billy Casper, a young working class boy troubled at home and at school, who only finds solace when he finds and trains a kestrel whom he names "Kes".
The threatened Nubian Ibex, Syrian Serin, Caracal, and Lesser Kestrel are natives of Wadi Dana and plans to save the species were put forth by Global Environment Fund in 1994.
Kirby the Kestrel is an American Kestrel (sometimes called a falcon or sparrow hawk) that frequents Target Field, Minneapolis, Minnesota.
There are over 70 different kinds of bird, including Kingfisher, Dipper, Sparrowhawk, Kestrel, Song Thrush, Bullfinch, Grey Heron and Blackcap.
The site has bare limestone rock exposures which are a recorded breeding area for such birds as Kestrel.
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A new build on the site of the former Boughton cold store is named The Windhover after an old name for the Kestrel.
Animals that visitors will see at the zoo include DeBrazza's Monkey, Kestrel, Russell's Viper, Jaguar, Jamaican Fruit Bat, Galapagos Tortoise, Fly River Turtle, Bontebok, Sulcata tortoise, Ruddy Duck, Malayan Tapir, Spectacled Owl, Chilean Flamingo, Toco Toucan, Saki Monkeys, Cotton-top Tamarin, Alligator, River Otter, Hippopotamus, Bali Mynah, Clouded Leopard, Maasai Giraffe, and White Rhinoceros.
The Merlin, originally known as the Kestrel, was designed and built by W. E. Hick of the Newcastle Glider Club.
In 1968, with colleagues Tony Garnett and Ken Loach, he set up Kestrel Productions, a company which was affiliated with London Weekend Television.
In 2007 Kestrel was acquired by Advanced Sports, which is also the parent company of brands Fuji and SE.
In countryside locations the waymarks consist mostly of a simple white disc mounted on a wooden post, with a directional arrow and flying kestrel logo in blue and text in green.
The Malagasy Kestrel usually nests on rock ledges, in buildings, in tree holes, or in the stick nests of other birds, such as the Pied Crow.
Kestrel trainer that was first demonstrated at the Hendon Air show in July 1937, although it never entered production.
Nankeen Kestrel, also called Nankeen hawk, the Australian kestrel, Falco cenchroides, a small falcon found in Australia and neighbouring islands.
Locomotives were painted in colour schemes that would grab the attention of those seeing them in colour photographs and in films, which led to brightly coloured prototype diesel locomotives in the 1950s and 1960s such as the British Rail DP1 and HS 4000 'Kestrel'.
Both these engines had initially been converted to diesel sleeve-valved operation with a lower power output than the original design being noted along with increased mechanical failures, although one converted Kestrel was subsequently used successfully by Captain George Eyston in a land-speed record car named Speed of the Wind.
One variant, the Kestrel VIII was configured as a 'pusher engine' for the Short Singapore flying boat.
Three more mines were opened in the 1990s – Ensham/Yongala, Crinum and Gordonstone (later purchased by Rio Tinto and renamed Kestrel Mine).
When quartering open country it frequently hovers like a Kestrel.
His duties were expanded with his March 1941 promotion to include the overhaul, inspection and testing of both the Kestrel and Rolls-Royce Merlin aircraft engines.
The trilogy begins with The Wind Singer, which introduces the protagonists Kestrel and her beloved empath brother, Bowman.