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American kestrel

Beatufilly patterned gray, rusty, and white kestrel with black accents leaning its head down and picking apart the head of a small gray rodent with its beak.

Adult male American kestrel eating a shrew. Biologist and photographer Gavin Emmons had never seen a kestrel eating a shrew before, so this was a nice highlight!

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Pinnacles National Park, Code: PINN
San Francisco Bay Area Network, Code: SFAN

Pinnacles National Park, California
Latitude: 36.4753494262695, Longitude: -121.173400878906

SFAN Inventory and Monitoring Program

04/22/2025

04/22/2025

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NPS / Gavin Emmons

NPS / Gavin Emmons

Person: Gavin Emmons
Organization: National Park Service
Email: gavin_emmons@nps.gov

Person: Jessica Weinberg McClosky
Organization: National Park Service
Email: jessica_weinberg@nps.gov

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Canon Canon, Canon EOS R7 640, EF400mm f/4 DO IS II USM +1.4x III

1/3200 sec at f / 6.3

560 mm

ISO 640

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