This is so awesome to see and understand, we have 5 kestrels that live near us that hunt together, one even who flew like a bullet head hight to me over a fence about 5 meters in front of me. I live in the country side and about 10 years ago there were only 2 but now at 5 :)

Fantastic and beatifull video!!!! Congratulation, thank 💯💢💯👍🤗

Things you need to know about Kestrels: they are absolutely unreal. Amazing.

Beautiful footage and great information. I learn new knowledge from this video. Big LIKE!!! Greeting from Singapore. Have a nice day.👍👍

@AShotOfWildlife

Жыл бұрын

Thanks. The narration and editing is all me, but some of the footage is not filmed by me.

Thankyou for this. We have nankeen kestrels here in Australia and their population is growing here on the fringe of Adelaide. One lives across the street from us. And they're fledging at time of writing. Gorgeous:)

Aw, we always look out for kestrels on our walks. Loved learning all these facts about them, especially about their breeding and the youngsters.

I've been looking for a video like this for over a year thank you

@AShotOfWildlife

7 ай бұрын

Brilliant, well I am glad you found it in the end!

I saw a kestrel 2 days ago driving north on the M1 from Hemel Hempstead in one of the fields, it was clearly hunting prey as it was flapping its wings in the samespot, really awesome

50 years ago, I often saw a dozen or more Kestrels in a day. Now I count myself lucky if I see a dozen in a year.

Fascinating. Thanks for presenting this information.

Thanks Liam for sharing another great "Things you need to know" video! Greetings from Gothenburg and I hope you're having a good weekend! // Bertil.

Excellent as always, thank you! I learn so much from watching your videos Liam 😊

Liam I always like your videos and your narration offers warm reassuring facts that help make me more knowledgeable about birds. Many thanks!

Hi Liam brilliant video again very interesting and full of information brilliant shots of the kestrel love all the information and the way you tell it keep up your good work and videos Bernard

Thank you so much Liam this is one of my favourite’s birds I really enjoy your channel and all the hard work you’ve put into researching all the information so we can benefit keep up the good work 😊

Brilliant! Thanks so much for your teachings! 4 years is a short life.

Excellent, I just love your format an narrative it all works like a song

Very informative Vlog,thank you for sharing this beautiful bird kestrel's life.

I like, how you share information about birds. Good work.👋

Such paitence Liam...to capture all the interesting footage of the kestrel...many thanks again! Rob

Fantastic film and info. Cheers,this is wonderful..stunning birds.

Thank you, Liam I do really enjoy your videos. We learn so much.

@AShotOfWildlife

Жыл бұрын

Thank you Robert.

Its amazing that aircraft technology comes from kestrels,a humble bird to a multi million pound plane....Love your work Liam.

Love your videos, very informative thank you 👏

@AShotOfWildlife

Жыл бұрын

Thank you Vernon!

love these birds, see them everywhere on the countryside where I live, in th northern netherlands. Such beautiful birds

Great video. I keep seeing what I think are kestrels and now I know how to identify them. Thank you

Excellent vid, thanks 👍

@AShotOfWildlife

Жыл бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it, thanks!

Love you're videos your commentary narrating superbthanks, there awsome bird's

@AShotOfWildlife

Жыл бұрын

Thanks John!

Awesome video!! Very informative. Would love to see you do one on the American Kestrel we have here in the States.

Awesome vid Liam

Thank you, very informative.

@AShotOfWildlife

Жыл бұрын

Thank you!

Thanks again for sharing

Awesome video.

Thanks for this very interesting 🤔.

@AShotOfWildlife

Жыл бұрын

Thank you!

Beautiful footage of a beautiful bird. Interesting video. Greetings Jacq

@AShotOfWildlife

Жыл бұрын

Many thanks!

Great video, beautiful subject

@AShotOfWildlife

Жыл бұрын

Thank you!

Super and to the point..

Great videos kid, keep ‘em coming

@AShotOfWildlife

Жыл бұрын

Thank you!

I have never heard of this bird before as they apparently are not in the US. They are very interesting animals. Well done.

@stevenhall8964

Жыл бұрын

They are found in almost all the lower 48! They are easy to overlook as they are small, not much bigger then a blackbird, they roost on telephone wires all the time! When I was a kid in Santa Cruz CA. It was common to see them on the wires near any empty field, we would see them down town as well. My cousin Sherry had one fly in her back door and land in her lap. It was an escaped bird from a falconer as it had the leather truss to tie to the perch on. She tried to find who owned it to no avail and was able to keep it because the laws concerning birds of prey were not yet passed, she had a large cage in the corner of the bedroom that he only used at feeding time and night, unless he was alone in the house then he waited in the cage. He loved my cousin and followed her from room to room. He loved getting head and neck scratches as long as it was Sherry he would not fly to anyone else without a food bribe, and then not even all the time! Sherry was the only human he completely trusted.

@notsosilentmajority1

Жыл бұрын

@@stevenhall8964 Wow, that's a great story. Yeah, I haven't noticed these birds but will be on the lookout for them in the future. Thanks for the reply. Best wishes.

@stevenhall8964

Жыл бұрын

notsosilentmajority thank you, I try and add a tidbit of knowledge here and there if I can do so without offending anyone, and then again I'm not an expert on anything just very well red. And sometimes I say something that I find out was wrong later on, usually because our knowledge keeps improving and new things are discovered all the time which can leave what everyone thought was truth once, is now shred up mama's tales thanks to new information being discovered! But that's ok I don't mind being wrong if it's got people talking and checking facts and learning as well!! But yes we do have Kestrels here and they are prettier then England's birds!! jus sayin!

@notsosilentmajority1

Жыл бұрын

@@stevenhall8964 Most thing here are better looking than in England, lol. Hey, England, just kidding?? Lol, no seriously, thanks for the info. You are right, we are constantly learning new things and much of it is changing. Thanks again and good luck.

@catherinewalker9183

11 ай бұрын

@notsosilentmajority1 We have a different species known as the American Kestre (Falco Sparverius) which is sometimes called Sparrow Hawk.

The cutest bird of prey ever.

Great video

That was great Liam thanks!! I love Kestrels and first became aware of them when I watched the fabulous movie "Kes" when I was a kid. I think they are probably the only the only UK bird of prey (aside from the occasional Owl) that I have seen and the motionless hovering whilst looking for prey is an amazing sight to see. Cheers again Liam. Have you done a Barn Owl vid?

One of my favourite if not my favourite raptor 💕 I didn't know that they stashed food sometimes? Thank you Liam 😊

Thank you for the vidio keep the good work up

@AShotOfWildlife

Жыл бұрын

Cheers Peter. I have lots more videos on their way so stay tuned for them.

Thanks!

@AShotOfWildlife

Жыл бұрын

Thank you!

Thanks once again :)

@AShotOfWildlife

Жыл бұрын

Thank you!

I Love this hawk...they are majestic...i think of the courts in England when I see them.

We have American Kestrels mostly in winter. They migrate / shift southwards to NE Oklahoma in autumn. Have seen a couple of early migrants recently.

brilliant Liam. All birds are special but raptors are magnificent. We all must do what we can to protect them from THE KNOWN ENEMIES!

Good one this Liam. I think the kestrel is well underestimated as a hunter

@AShotOfWildlife

Жыл бұрын

Thank you!

This was warming. Cheers matey

@AShotOfWildlife

Жыл бұрын

Thank you!

I flew a captive bred female Kestrel, she was an bullet. She was so beautiful and fast, she would catch me out with the lure all the time, too quick for me.

Thank you for the interesting video. I recently encountered a Kestral while driving to town. He was on the ground and flew into the bumper of the car. I backed up, wrapped him up in some paper towel and brought him home to administer to his wounds. He had blood from his head and right eye. My daughter treated him with a little hydrogen-peroxide around the eye and we set him up in a dog crate with branches and water. It took quite a while for the eye to heal, but he seems perfectly normal except for a lazy eye covering. He loves being fed, jumping up and down and his little chest beating when he sees me with a mouse at his door then has no problem grabbing it from me. His rehabilitation has been a little less than a month.

exellent as allways thanks for sharing we have kites on our land usually the same pair, for some reason the crows dont like them and often fly at them to send them away and there not near there nest no kestrels unfortunatly

I had a male Kestrel for 3 days. I took care of it because it was going to be dinner for 2 cats and it was slightly injured.

I think I have a Kestrel in the field in front of my house. It hovers about 10-15 m off the ground.

Great video again. Have you got one on the golden eagle ?

@AShotOfWildlife

Жыл бұрын

Thank you. I haven't done golden eagles yet but they are on my list (somewhere).

@MultiDrew83

Жыл бұрын

@@AShotOfWildlife Thank you! Look forward to seeing it!

Super

@AShotOfWildlife

Жыл бұрын

Thanks!

Went to the red kite feeding station near Aberystwyth on Thursday. If you get the chance, check it out

A beautiful bird. Pretty much the only British bird that hovers habitually (though Goshawks do and others intermittently). They used to be so common along motorways, probably one a mile or so. Not so now. The motorways stopped the voles etc from crossing, hence giving the Kestrel an easy meal. I saw one take a sparrow off a fence about 10 feet away from me once, and it took its prey up to its nest, a broken air brick in a school next door to work. Amazing. I often wonder if, as we have overexploited the seas, perhaps any easy meal for (say) a Kestrel has a similar affect. Just a thought. They were so common, now my heart leaps when I see one.

@stevenhall8964

Жыл бұрын

most people call Goshawks Marsh Harriers or just Marsh Hawks!

They are beautiful little hunters! Is it legal to train them for falconry?

little chicken hawks love em

This is a fabulous channel, full of interesting facts. One request, please don’t drop ye olde Imperial weights and measurements as I noticed on this programme.

@AShotOfWildlife

Жыл бұрын

Hi Nick, thanks for the feedback. It is something I did intentionally to see if anyone commented about it. Having both cm and inches slightly ruins the flow of things but I will add it back in, in the future. Cheers.

@nickwebb9290

Жыл бұрын

@@AShotOfWildlife Thanks for the message Liam, explaining why you did this. However if you could use Imperial too without messing with the flow of your voice over I’m sure there are many other people who’d appreciate it too. Please keep these coming, they’re so very good 👍

those nest boxes can make urban conditions safer to them

Chat GPT give me the name of this bird after describing it! I'm fascinated by it as I usually see it on the freeways just hovering around in one spot that's really amazing.

This was such a great enjoyable video to watch Liam, nowadays I tend to see more buzzards thank kestrels.

Yorkshire's favourite bird.

👍

One of my favourite birds

They live in most of North America as well.

Great video Liam, but must say 4 to 8 voles a day is way to much food for a hawk that size!

@AShotOfWildlife

Жыл бұрын

Thanks. I did some follow up research on this and the rspb say 4 to 8 but others do say less or similar.

I’m afraid to say here in N.Ireland there has been a sharp decline in kestrels, when I was younger I used to see them occasionally hovering in the sky but I haven’t seen one in years, I think probably due to intensive farming practices as hedge rows are being pulled up to make larger fields and also tree have been removed to give more light to crops. A very sad situation and it will get worse as business men now buy land and get contractors in to do all the work for cereal products. So no longer do farmers have control over land .

In my area the kestrel numbers declined when the buzzards started to arrive but in the last few years they are coming back. Yeh great to see

Great videos, which dialect is he speaking?

@AShotOfWildlife

6 ай бұрын

Thank you. I find it funny when people ask what dialect I am speaking, especially when a lot of the people I speak to regularly have such stronger accents than me. I live in Norfolk, east of england but spent 4 years in cambridge so have a bit of a blend of queens english and farmers english. Cheers :)

🦅👍👌

Here in the US they are commonly called Sparrow Hawks . My youngest daughter is named Sparrow Hawk .

@kid--presentable

Жыл бұрын

Are you native

@joebeal4212

Жыл бұрын

moe define Native. I can trace my ancestors back to 1652 .

@kid--presentable

Жыл бұрын

@@joebeal4212 a native Indian American , an indigenous American.

@JohnyG29

11 ай бұрын

A sparrowhawk is a completely different species. There are sparrowhawks in the UK.

@Bignfluffy

7 ай бұрын

Sparrow hawks also exist in the Uk and they ARENT kestrels smdh

Some times called a "wind hover"

Anyone knows how often the four weeks old babies eat?

Kestrels are also found in the Americas, in the U.S. they are commonly referred to as "Sparrow Hawks"

@AShotOfWildlife

Жыл бұрын

Yes indeed, very rarely this species but the American kestrel is quite similar.

@carlt9265

Жыл бұрын

Sparrow hawks and kestrel 2 different birds 🤷‍♂️🤷‍♂️

I am nearly sure the US have them too. Males even a nicer blueish grey head.

Average age in the wild of only 4 years but as much as 24 in captivity, which only goes to show how tough an existence wildlife has to contend with.

I caught this morning morning's minion, king- dom of daylight's dauphin, dapple-dawn-drawn Falcon, in his riding Of the rolling level underneath him steady air, and striding High there, how he rung upon the rein of a wimpling wing In his ecstasy! then off, off forth on swing, As a skate's heel sweeps smooth on a bow-bend: the hurl and gliding Rebuffed the big wind. My heart in hiding Stirred for a bird, - the achieve of, the mastery of the thing! Brute beauty and valour and act, oh, air, pride, plume, here Buckle! AND the fire that breaks from thee then, a billion Times told lovelier, more dangerous, O my chevalier! No wonder of it: shéer plód makes plough down sillion Shine, and blue-bleak embers, ah my dear, Fall, gall themselves, and gash gold-vermilion. The Windhover Gerald Manley Hopkins

He’s kinda fit

In NJ we have 'American Kestrels' which are flashier(reddish rust with a slate blue and black face markings) then the Common Kestrel you showed. My friend has rescued falcons from Newark NJ ( American Kestrel and Peregrine Falcon). We rescue birds when they migrate thru the city, birds hit the glass skyscrapers or fall to the cement, most do not survive impact, those that do we get them help. I stick with the songbirds he rescues all birds/bats. A youtube shows us in Newark NJ kzread.info/dash/bejne/nZ6s0bhvZtOpk7A.html and kzread.info/dash/bejne/c6uklc-uoNK4qdI.html of us picking up injured Warblers.

@stevenhall8964

Жыл бұрын

Kestrels from mainland Europe are flashier then these are, however ALL Kestrels are closely related all old world varieties being subspecies of the same species and possibly for the American varieties as well!

@anitacoogan4822

Жыл бұрын

@@stevenhall8964 Thanks just a few years ago I knew nothing about birds, now I enjoy learning something new almost everyday. Thank you

@stevenhall8964

Жыл бұрын

@@anitacoogan4822 thank you Anita, but an ornithologist I am not!! I usually don't remark in these chats unless I know I'm 100 right or the you tuber and are friends or at least pleasant acquaintances, or sometimes a wild hair grew somewhere like when I responded to this one! All I really wanted to relay is that we have them here as well because when he was talking about ranges for these beautiful little Hawks, he mentioned everywhere else but the Americas! I didn't say only North America because I think that some of the population migrates to Central America and even to parts of South America. I cannot say this with an absolute certainty however, but I seem to remember reading that somewhere. So if that and or the species ,subspecies thing I said are wrong which they could be and I think I'm right, but if I'm wrong than I offer everyone my Humblest apologies now, and promptly say,,,,,I'm pretty smart, but I do not know everything about everything , I mean I'm not God, just the next best thing!! Naw jus kiddin up there fellas!! Have a wonderful one Anita and it's always good to learn, and the more we think we know, the more we realize how much more there is to know!! In the words of my Lakota people, Mitakuye Oyasin, all my relatives!

@anitacoogan4822

Жыл бұрын

@@stevenhall8964 Thank you!

@anitacoogan4822

Жыл бұрын

@@stevenhall8964 Sorry to be a Pest. I just opened my Nov/Dec 2022 issue , of Smithsonian Magazine read an article on pages 11-13 about how the Lakota Nation may view Crazy Horse. Back in 1975 my father's friend Stephen Ambrose had given him a book he had just published named 'Crazy Horse and Custer: The Parallel Lives of Two American Warriors', it is the thickest book I ever read, but I could not put it down. I'm an avid reader, with no Indian heritage yet found the book 'The Heart of Everything That Is' is' which focused on Red Cloud another interesting book. Have not read either book in years, but so interesting that I kept them.

Can you give to me Kestrel bird male

@AShotOfWildlife

8 ай бұрын

no, I dont keep captive birds.

English folk name windhover,for obvious reason

Unfortunately they would hunt down my 2 pyrrhuras if i kept them together.

My name is Kestrel

@excalibastardd

19 күн бұрын

mine too! picked it myself haha, glad to see there are other kestrels out there :-)

Actually, it is an insult as well as a misnomer to call this pretty little falcon a" sparrow hawk " for only occasionally does it eat anything with feathers on it. By far the vast majority of its food consists of small rodents and large insects and other pests which are injurious to crops,which is why farmers like having them around! 😅

@AShotOfWildlife

2 ай бұрын

Who called them sparrowhawks?

this is everything you want us to know about kestrels. rise up people, stay woke. dont let big nature channel tell you what you can and cant know about kestrels

I hate this bird !

A common old name for the Kestrel: the windfucker, or the fuckwind. I kid you not. There is even a gloss for this name in the OED: 1. A name for the kestrel: cf. windhover. "1599 Nashe Lenten Stuffe 49 The kistrilles or windfuckers that filling themselues with winde, fly against the winde euermore.". The name was coined by elizabethan playwright, pamphleteer and dramatist Thomas Nashe in 1599. The "fuck" in the name refers to an older germanic meaning of "beating and striking" whilst fucking (the twain that could still fit in to the modern habituations of the said "usage" (or "do-age") nowadays anyways, I suppose). Almost immediately after Nashe created his name it was used by men to jocularly describe other men's businesses as to fuck also meant exactly what it carries on meaning to-day. A second gloss from the OED on this "windfucker": 2. fig. as a term of opprobrium. 1602 Narcissus MS. Rawl. Poet. 212, lf. 80, I tell you, my little windfuckers, had not a certaine melancholye ingendred with a nippinge dolour overshadowed the sunne shine of my mirthe, I had beene I pre, sequor, one of your consorte. 1609 B. Jonson Silent Wom. i. iv. (1620) C3b, Did you euer heare such a Wind-fucker, as this? c1611 Chapman Iliad Pref. A4, There is a certaine enuious Windfucker, that houers vp and downe, laboriously ingrossing al the air with his luxurious ambition. a1616 Beaum. & Fl. Wit without M. iv. i, Husbands for Whores and Bawdes, away you wind-fuckers [sic ed. 1639]. I like the third _exemple_ from 1611. 😂

Great video

@AShotOfWildlife

Жыл бұрын

Thank you!