Mauritius kestrel
falco punctatus latin

And the Mauritius kestrel, I believe, it came back from one or two pairs.

Mauritius Kestrel In 1976 there were only four individuals in the wild with one female.

In 1998 it announced that the Mauritius kestrel - a species once reduced to only four birds - had been saved from extinction.

The Mauritius Kestrel hunts by means of short, swift flights through forests.

Other species have more restricted distributions, particularly island endemics like the Mauritius Kestrel.

Don't you know about the Mauritius kestrel?'

The Mauritius Kestrel was successfully reintroduced into the wild after its captive breeding programme.

The Mauritius kestrel, of which there were only four in 1974, is nearly fully recovered with around 1,000 birds thanks to a successful captive breeding program.

The Mauritius Kestrel is more distantly related.

Among the endangered species in the sanctuary is the Mauritius Kestrel, once the rarest bird in the world with only 4 members left.

Mascarene Martins will mob the Mauritius Kestrel, suggesting that it is perceived as a potential predator.

Several insular species have declined dramatically, none more so than the Mauritius Kestrel, which at one time numbered no more than four birds.

Reverse Mauritius Kestrel by C. Ironside (see below, originally this design was to be used on a 25 rupees coin).

The Mauritius kestrel, Mauritius parakeet and pink pigeon all came close to extinction but are now increasing thanks to intensive conservation efforts.

Bird-watchers should keep an eye out for the Mauritius kestrel, pink pigeon, echo parakeet and Mauritius cuckoo-shrike.

Ravenous, 21-day-old Mauritius kestrels, an endangered falcon from an island in the Indian Ocean, chirp relentlessly, pausing only long enough to swallow or sleep.

Aviaries for snowy owls, rhinoceros hornbills and Mauritius kestrels are located behind the Children's Fun Ark.

BirdLife International (2006b): Mauritius Kestrel - BirdLife Species Factsheet.

The conservation work in Mauritius began as a species orientated program concentrating on a few critically endangered species, including the Mauritius Kestrel and the Pink Pigeon.

Little conservation action was deemed necessary only two decades - in Mauritius Kestrel terms, a long lifetime or maybe 4-5 generations - after the species had stood at the very brink of extinction.

But with the team of Carl Jones (of Mauritius Kestrel and Last Chance to See fame) taking over, a dedicated research and conservation effort was launched to save the birds.

The Mauritius Kestrel, F. punctatus, is more distantly related to the preceding two, having diverged from ancestral Madagascar region kestrels some time in the Gelasian (Groombridge et al. 2002).

Confusingly it is sometimes referred to as the Spotted Kestrel, a name usually used for the Moluccan/Indonesian Kestrel, while the Mauritius Kestrel's scientific name literally means "spotted falcon/kestrel".

The Mauritius Kestrel population seems to have survived a prolonged period of volcanic activity, which must have kept the population small and fluctuating as habitat, food, and kestrels were destroyed by volcanic eruptions time and again.

The Mauritius Kestrel (Falco punctatus) is a bird of prey from the family Falconidae endemic to the forests of Mauritius, where it is restricted to the southwestern plateau's forests, cliffs, and ravines.

The Mauritius Kestrel (Falco punctatus) is a bird of prey from the family Falconidae endemic to the forests of Mauritius, where it is restricted to the southwestern plateau's forests, cliffs, and ravines.

Interestingly, the pollination efficiency of these geckos depend on the proximity to dense patches of Pandanus, which are a favourite microhabitat for the geckos - possibly because the spiky leaves of Pandanus protect them from their main predator, the Mauritius Kestrel (Falco punctatus).