American Kestrel

Identification: Male- our smallest falcon, note the reddish back and top of crown, blue-gray wings, patterned face, light buffy
breast with spotting.

Female- note the patterned face, the rufous back and wings with barring and the rufous brown streaking from the throat down the breast.

Male- Henrico County, Virginia

 

Male

 

Male- Mattamuskeet National Wildlife Refuge, North Carolina

 

Female- Mattamuskeet National Wildlife Refuge, North Carolina