Small, But Fierce

This kestrel is super amazing! The more I research it the more I find this bird to be more and more awesome! I was researching more on what they eat and its hunting techniques to see if they hunt specifically on a set time. I was surprised at what I found about these crazy birds.

When I think of a bird's prey, I usually think of worms, insects, and if they're more aggressive and vicious, rodents. That's what most people think right? Well in fact, these birds eat other types of small birds and some very dangerous insects.

Apparently kestrels prey upon small birds such as European starlings, house sparrows and songbirds. I was actually shocked when I found out about this because I had never heard of birds eating other birds, but apparently there is such a thing as that. At first I thought it was some sort of cannibalism or something like that...then I looked up the definition of "cannibalism." It turns out that it's only considered "cannibalism" if they eat their own species.

Anyway, my English teacher, Farias, recommended me to watch this following video of starlings. This is truly unbelievable! I can't imagine seeing this in person. Just all those birds flying all at once in perfect coordination so they don't crash amongst themselves, is just insane. You must check this out! I don't know if it's just me, but as I was watching this video, I noticed that at times the little starlings were making figures as they all flew in perfect harmony. Watch it.

Just imagine a few kestrels in there; I think that would make them really happy. So changing topics here a bit, kestrels may be small, but they are fierce little guys. I had no idea they preyed on scorpions! What the heck!? Considering their size, I didn't know they could take on scorpions. The scorpion can just strike with its poisonous tail and kill the bird, but instead it's the bird that prevails and kills the scorpion. After reading kestrels did that, I thought they were way cool. Then, I read they also had snakes on their diet. This was it, this bird is just unbelievably awesome! When I read this, it reminded me of the bird on the Mexican flag eating the snake on a cactus. I still can't believe little birds can do that to snakes. They are some fierce little guys.