I shot this with my phone. The kestrel was calmly sitting next to a a few pigeons, until they realized it wasn’t one of them (took them a while) and they flew away.
I shot this with my phone. The kestrel was calmly sitting next to a a few pigeons, until they realized it wasn’t one of them (took them a while) and they flew away.
Honestly, I much welcome kestrels as natural deterrence over those ugly anti bird landing spikes they put on many surfaces:
Edit: internet says kestrel only occasionally hunt down pigeons, but maybe they’d still be rather elsewhere in that case.
Would be cool if they used raptors to fight pigeons on train stations