Replica American Kestrel Skull Skull_Height_8_IN 5 M) and can weigh

5 M) and can weigh up to 450 lbs (205 kg)

some individuals are believed to live over 100 years in the wild

Found primarily throughout the Midwest

is believed to be a female specimen

and even caimans before swallowing them whole

Replica American Kestrel Skull Skull_Height_8_IN 5 M) and can weighThe American kestrel is the smallest and most common of the North American falcons. The more colorful male is rusty with blue gray wings, a pale underside and two black stripes on its face. Fond of perching on telephone wires or fence posts, kestrels feed on insects and small vertebrates. Kestrels have the ability to hover directly over their prey before dropping on top of it. Sometimes wrongly called a sparrow hawk, due to its diet of small birds