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

Staffan Widstrand / Wild Wonders of China / Saker falcon (Falco cherrug milvipes) in flight, Keke Xili, Changtang, Tibetan Plateau, Qinghai, China

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.

Espen Bergersen / Gyrfalcon (Falco rusticolus) flying with guillemot prey. Hornoya bird cliff. Finnmark, Norway. March

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

Ann & Steve Toon / Rock kestrel (Falco rupicolus) at nesting box, Western Cape, South Africa.

Tony Heald / Kestrel (Falco tinnunculus) female feeding on small mammal prey. Richmond Park, London, England, UK. December.

Nick Upton / Female Kestrel (Falco tinnunculus) soliciting male to mate with her by crouching down on a cliff ledge near their nest site, Cornwall, UK, April.

Nick Upton / Kestrel (Falco tinnunculus) female perched on a cliff ledge while eating a Common shrew (Sorex araneus) brought by her mate as a courtship gift and held in her talons, Cornwall, UK, April.

Nick Upton / Kestrel (Falco tinnunculus) male hovering overhead, Cornwall, UK, April.

Nick Upton / Kestrel (Falco tinnunculus) pair copulating on cliff ledge, Cornwall, UK, April.