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Kestrels themselves usually dart around below the turbines 'blades.
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"Kestrels mainly feed on voles and other small mammals," she says, "and if there aren't many of those around their numbers will decline."
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Things have been tough over in the Rock camp--so tough, in fact, that the team is "rolling" Kestrels now.
Pimping Your Ride: Making Money With Your Bike BikeSnobNYC 2009
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Incidentally, a reader informs me Rock Racing are now customizing their Kestrels with label-makers:
Keeping it Reeled In: Hope or Delusion? BikeSnobNYC 2009
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Kestrels can hover in mid-air, so if you see a raptor hovering, it's probably a kestrel.
Archive 2008-10-01 Jess 2008
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Kestrels can hover in mid-air, so if you see a raptor hovering, it's probably a kestrel.
Hiking Around Sandanski Wil Dalton 2008
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Kestrels were wheeling in the indigo sky, keening, cheeping.
Black Butterfly Mark Gatiss 2008
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Kestrels, so sexual selection is probably still acting on males, but ecological forces make them smaller.
Breasts and Evolution Doctor Science 2007
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Kestrels, so sexual selection is probably still acting on males, but ecological forces make them smaller.
Archive 2007-11-01 Doctor Science 2007
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Theoretically, it belonged to the Kestrels, but in practice those small holdings passed from parent to child along similar lines of inheritance followed in other matters.
Through Wolfs Eyes 2001
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