American Kestrel - and Long Beach Airport Tower

A "sparrow hawk" scans the fields (a 2009 photo next to Long Beach Airport's main runway) for grasshoppers and the like. Nowadays they're not seen here much, as measures (including professionally trapping & relocating) to remove them are in place. Cited is the hazard to air traffic during landing and take-off. signaltribunenewspaper.com/17439/news/lb-airport-to-work-...

The American kestrel is the smallest and most common falcon in North America. It has a roughly two-to-one range in size over subspecies and sex, varying in size from about the weight of a blue jay to a mourning dove. (Wiki)

The American kestrel sports many common nicknames, including, for instance, grasshopper hawk, killy hawk (after its killy, killy, killy call), short-winged hawk, windhover, house hawk, rusty-crowned falcon, and, more commonly, sparrow hawk. Early ornithologists thought these small falcons preferred sparrows as their primary prey and named them the “sparrowhawk.”

While kestrels share some similarities – for example, a hooked bill and sharp talons – with other relatives of the raptor group, they are in fact members of the falcon family (Falconidae), not the hawk family (Accipitridae). Their similarity to the Eurasian kestrel is the source of the “kestrel” name. www.desertusa.com/birds/sparrow-hawk.html

Taken in: United States / California / Long Beach (show map)

Taken on: December 8, 2009

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Camera: Canon PowerShot SX110 IS, f/4.3, 1/1000 sec, 60mm, ISO 80 (more info) (hide info)

Camera:	Canon PowerShot SX110 IS
Aperture:	f/4.3
Exposure Time:	0.001 sec (1/1000)
Focal Length:	60mm
ISO:	80
Exposure Bias:	+0.857 EV
Flash:	Off, Did not fire
Exposure Mode:	Auto
Metering Mode:	Multi-segment
White Balance:	Auto
Color Space:	sRGB
Software:	Microsoft Windows Live Photo Gallery14.0.8064.206
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