Male American Kestrel!

Not only was Connie from Loveland, Colorado’s recent submission to the Wingscapes Photo Gallery of this superb image of a male American Kestrel a new life bird for the Wingscapes BirdCam Life List, it was the first addition of both a new taxonomic genus (Falco) and family (Falconidae) to that list.

Connie reports that this is the male of a pair of kestrels that are raising a brood in one of her Northern Flicker nest boxes. There are chicks in the nest as she has seen the parent birds bringing food into the box. We are now eagerly awaiting photos of emerging young kestrels!