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EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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A more extreme development of this pattern is seen in the kestrel , peregrine and buzzard prey assemblages.
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Keep a look out too for buzzards soaring over the crags which surround you, and also for the odd kestrel .
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Later I trained a kestrel which I found much less inquisitive and more likely to come straight to me for the food.
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Meanwhile a pair of kestrels has produced four young in a disused ventilation pipe in a raw materials store.
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The barn owl and kestrel samples examined here were drawn from widely different parts of their global range.
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These values contrast with correlations between the barn owl and kestrel samples of r 0.189-0.355.
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True to habit, the kestrel stood motionless, waiting to begin an afternoon of hunting at Hidden Waters Preserve.
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Two kestrels hovered at the railway siding.