{"id":17528,"date":"2012-07-17T23:56:05","date_gmt":"2012-07-17T21:56:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/?p=17528"},"modified":"2019-12-22T22:26:40","modified_gmt":"2019-12-22T09:26:40","slug":"feeding-male-american-kestral","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/feeding-male-american-kestral\/","title":{"rendered":"Feeding male American Kestral"},"content":{"rendered":"

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5 frame stop action of an American Kestrel<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/p>\n

I photographed a male American Kestrel -Falco sparverius – as he fed this morning.<\/p>\n

He used a large Cordon Cactus as his look-out post and sallied forth to catch large insects on the ground. He would return to his look-out post to eat. During one of his flights I set my camera on ‘high speed burst mode’ and got a stop action sequence. The five images of the sequence took at little less than a second (@ 7 frames\/sec).<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

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I could not make out what type of insect. I assumed it was a large grasshopper.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

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In all he ate 8 insects in about 1\/2 hour.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

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A handsome member of the Falcon family. He is fairly common and is found through out North America.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I photographed a male American Kestrel -Falco sparverius – as he fed this morning. He used a large Cordon Cactus as his look-out post and sallied forth to catch large insects on the ground. He would return to his look-out post to eat. During one of his flights I set my camera on ‘high speed […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":107,"featured_media":2192409,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/071712_06-Small.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6984,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17528","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blogs","category-wildlife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17528","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/107"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17528"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17528\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2192409"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17528"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17528"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17528"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}