My favorite tiny little murder birb!
There’s at least one falconer on YouTube who gets hired to reduce starling populations (which is sad because I love the laser birds too but they’re invasive) and he literally drive-bys them by yeeting a kestrel out the window of the moving car. It’s incredible to watch.
zqwzzle@lemmy.ca 2 days ago
Kestrels(falconiformes) are more closely related to parrots so kinda makes sense.
Enkrod@feddit.org 2 days ago
Kestrels and falcons are each others closest relatives.
Both are more closely related to parrots than to kites hawks and eagles. In fact falcons are more closely related to tits than to hawks. But tits are more closely related to parrots than to falcons. Fuck, eagles and hawks are more closely related to woodpeckers than to falcons.
Bird cladistics is wild!