OXFORD 9000
📚 noun • entry_id 3676

kestrel

/ˈkɛstɹəl/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
cernícalo
Any of various small falcons of the genus Falco that hover while hunting.
Up on the downs the red-eyed kestrels hover, Eyeing the grass. The field mouse flits like a shadow into cover As their shadows pass.
When she was musing she was a kestrel, which hangs in the air by an invisible motion of its wings.
cernícalo común
A common kestrel (Falco tinnunculus).
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