If ever the phrase, ‘kill them with cuteness’ applied, it’d be to the nankeen kestrel – a compact assassin with the sweetest face and a signature style that makes killing look easy. Native to ...

Don't miss out on the headlines from Rockhampton. Followed categories will be added to My News. One of these talks took place in the upstairs restaurant at our local Callaghan Park racecourse. While I ...

Short-grassed vacant land on the edge of town and broadacre farming paddocks are the haunts of the small hawk known as the nankeen kestrel. Sign up for our newsletter to stay up to date.

Kestrels have been trained to fly inside a wind tunnel to reveal how they can hover in turbulent winds while keeping their heads almost perfectly still. Training the two captive-bred nankeen kestrels ...

Don't miss out on the headlines from Geelong. Followed categories will be added to My News. Great Ocean Road Wildlife Rescue was last week called to ‘The Pole House’ in Fairhaven to pick up a Nankeen ...

A FEISTY juvenile nankeen kestrel has taken over the bathroom of Lyn Laskis's house. The raptor was found covered in oil on Red Rover Road and its discovery has led to calls by the Environment ...

A shrill, mewling chatter falls from a clear city sky and echoes off the walls of glass of nearby buildings, thin and piercing through the rattle and roar of the traffic below. A lazy shadow passes ...

Melbourne, Australia – 9 November 2010 – Sentient today announced that Kestrel Land MTI, itscomputer vision system for electro-optical (EO) and infrared (IR) sensors, is actively deployed insupport of ...

A new joint study by RMIT and the University of Bristol has revealed secrets to the remarkably steady flight of kestrels and could inform future drone designs and flight control strategies. Watch ...

The steady flight of kestrels could inform future drone designs and flight control strategies, a joint study by Australia’s RMIT and Bristol University has found. ‘Wind hovering’ allows kestrels ‘hang ...