/channels/news_feeds/all/term/Avian%20Science%20and%20Conservation%20Centre/rss en /channels/channels/news/american-kestrel-free-fall-and-no-one-knows-why-304003 <div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><p>Once prevalent in Montreal, the littlest falcon's downfall is a bellwether for hard times. “The story of the kestrel is happening to other bird species.”</p> <p>Throughout the 1900s, North America’s littlest falcon was also described as the continent’s most common and widespread. Small but fierce and marked with bright plumage rare in the raptor world, the American kestrel could be seen throughout the continent, diving and swooping in fallow fields or under the stadium lights at baseball games, hunting for plump moths or small mice.</p></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-primary-image field-type-image field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><img class="no-float" src="/channels/files/channels/styles/wysiwyg_medium/public/channels/image/253493343-american_kestrel_photo_hamilton_greenwood.jpg?itok=IvsqA_OM" width="160" height="200" alt="" /></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-published-date field-type-datestamp field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><div class="custom-multi-date"><div class="multi-date first"><span class="label">Published: </span><span class="day">10 </span><span class="month">January </span><span class="year">2020</span></div></div></div></div></div> Fri, 10 Jan 2020 14:18:03 +0000 webfull 157151 at /channels