Can you find the predator in this pic?

[Carrie Lynn]

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Larger hawks will kill and eat chickens on the ground if they are too larger to carry off.

 

[aprophet]

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it is a raptor a really small one depends on who you are talking to the local colloquialism is either dove hawk or sparrow hawk they are slightly smaller then a raven

looks like some call them kestrels

http://www.desertusa.com/mag06/oct/photos/ak_malejadult.jpg

OK. Local names get me. I knew kestrels were commonly called sparrow hawks and that red-tailed hawks are commonly called chicken hawks. Dove hawk was a new one for me.

Just to be on the picky side. Kestrels are actually falcons, the smallest member on the falcon family. They are also significantly smaller than a raven. Merlins are also falcons and are slightly larger larger than a kestrel.

I suppose a kestrel could take a dove but they aren't much larger than doves. One of their primary food is grasshopper.

I have witnessed them eating cardinals and robins I have not tried to run them off between them and the rest of the raptors I have they do a fair job on the rodent population I have