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Common name: American Kestrel Category: Falcon Description: Smallest and most colorful falcon in North America Reddish orange back with black markings with blue/gray wings and black and white facial pattern
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Common name: American Kestrel Category: Falcon Description: Smallest and most colorful falcon in North America Reddish orange back with black markings with blue/gray wings and black and white facial pattern Common foods include grasshoppers, cicadas, beetles, and dragonflies; scorpions and spiders; butterflies and moths; voles, mice, shrews, bats, and small songbirds. Nest in tree cavities made by woodpeckers, but will readily nest in man-made boxes