Eric Medard / Female kestrel (Falco tunniculus) taking lizard prey gift from male, Mayenne, France

Christophe Courteau / Male Common kestrel (Falco tinnunculus) feeding juvenile, France, May.

Dietmar Nill / Slow motion clip of a male Kestrel (Falco tinnunculus) hovering, Germany, May.

Bence Mate / Barn swallow (Hirundo rustica) mobbing Euasian Kestrel (Falco tinnunculus) Pusztaszer, Hungary, June.

Bence Mate / Female Kestrel (Falco tinnunculus) in flight, carrying prey, Pusztaszer, Kiskunsagi National Park, Hungary

Hanne & Jens Eriksen / Kestrel (Falco tinnunculus) male perched in Date Palm, Oman, March

Andrew Parkinson / 2020VISION / Kestrel (Falco tinnunculus) adult perched on a fence post in front of urban landscape, Elmley Marshes RSPB Reserve, Kent, UK, February 2012

Fabrice Cahez / Kestrel (Falco tinnunculus) perched on a post. Vosges, France, February.

Fabrice Cahez / Northern / Hen Harrier (Circus cyaneus) and Kestrel (Falco tinnunculus) below, fighting in flight. Vosges, France, February.

Dietmar Nill / Common Kestrel (Falco tinnunculus) female in flight over snow. Germany, January.

Laurent Geslin / Two Kestrels (Falco tinnunculus) on a stone wall in Paris, with tourists in the background. France

Laurent Geslin / Kestrel (Falco tinnunculus) male in flight with wings spread. Paris, France