/macdonald/taxonomy/term/2779/all en /macdonald/channels/news/american-kestrel-free-fall-and-no-one-knows-why-304003 <p>Once prevalent in Montreal, the littlest falcon's downfall is a bellwether for hard times. “The story of the kestrel is happening to other bird species.”</p> <p>Throughout the 1900s, North America’s littlest falcon was also described as the continent’s most common and widespread. Small but fierce and marked with bright plumage rare in the raptor world, the American kestrel could be seen throughout the continent, diving and swooping in fallow fields or under the stadium lights at baseball games, hunting for plump moths or small mice.</p> Fri, 10 Jan 2020 14:18:02 +0000 hcrphoto.macdonald@mcgill.ca 157192 at /macdonald