Urban Peregrines by Ed Drewitt;

Author:Ed Drewitt;
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Lightning Source Inc. (Tier 2)

Figure 6.8 The white faecal splats known as mutes are a telltale sign Peregrines are in residence at an urban location.

Occasionally, urban sites are used simultaneously by Kestrels, which feed mostly on small mammals but will also eat birds such as Starlings. However, the two living side by side in the middle of a town or city is unusual, and Kestrels themselves can become prey to Peregrines. Where I have witnessed the two species living close together on an aeroplane hangar, the Kestrel pellets, faeces and plucked feathers were very focused in one place directly below where the Kestrels were nesting. Those most likely to be plucked by the Peregrines, especially pigeons, were spread all around the building, and reflected the Peregrine’s nature of using lots of different perches and plucking its prey up high. Kestrel pellets are smaller than those of Peregrines, and mostly contain fur and bones rather than feathers.

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