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 ...

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 ...

One of these talks took place in the upstairs restaurant at our local Callaghan Park racecourse. While I was waiting to make my presentation, I was looking out of the window and across the track.

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.

Great Ocean Road Wildlife Rescue was last week called to ‘The Pole House’ in Fairhaven to pick up a Nankeen kestrel that had taken shelter at the picturesque location amid the Surf Coasts wild weather ...

Researchers have developed a robotic bird based on the nankeen kestrel to investigate how it maintains stable flight in turbulent conditions and how those mechanisms could inform future aircraft ...