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The shape of the peregrine falcon in flight inspired the aerodynamic shape of the B-2 bomber!

"Eranu" or "Uvavu"

Uvavu. It was inspired by the dove from above. 

"C'mon Kes!"

The structure of peregrine nostrils was studied to design the intakes for Concorde's supersonic engines, how to slow the air down.

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Can it fly? 

Yes sir, its flying now. 

You have to love a bit of Vic and Bob! 😀

It's a great clip.

I can't hear the words "chicken tikka" without being reminded of it

similarly with the kingfisher and the design of Japan's bullet train..

If you sneak up on a kestrel and tip it over, it can't get back up.

Without kestrels we would starve, as our crops would go unpollinated.

57% of the usable oxygen in Earth's atmosphere is produced by kestrels, at night.

The Vikings used to strap kestrels to the undersides of their shoes to grip in the snow. Kestrel friction.

Anglo Saxons used capture and train kestrels to hunt for field voles, reducing the kestrel population to a third. Kestrel fraction. 

Galileo built his first telescope using the lenses from a kestrel's eye. Kestrel REfraction.

The harrier is an evolutionary descendant of the kestrel.

The earliest kestrels were created through gain-of-function research performed on budgies, in a secretive Chinese laboratory.

Along with Greensleeves, another of Henry VIII's popular contributions to English culture was the now ubiquitous stuffed kestrel atop Christmas trees throughout the land.

Up to that point an image of the Holy Mother had been the more popular totem, but at the time of the Reformation and the establishment of the Anglican Church a more English protestant emblem was deemed necessary. Henry, being a massive Barry Hines fan popularised the inanimate raptor and the rest is history. 

If you put a kestrel in a pot of water, and bring it very slowly to the boil, it doesn't notice.

P1127?

Medieval monks used to make a type of mead using kestrel blood that they would drink as a night cap. It was so strong they couldn’t spell proper. 

Yes, same ancestral DNA.

Kestrels are a menace to modern farming. They peck the eyes out of newborn lambs and if they get into a barn full of hens or turkeys one hunting pair will slaughter over a thousand birds in their frenzy 

The name Kestrel is derived from the Old Norse for small eagle (smalr ǫrn).

No it doesn't. In the same way as Admiral is an abbreviation of Arabic Amir al-bahr, so kestrel i n full is iktasar al- bustan, the one who brings to an end (root ksr to break)  the bustard ie hunting bird

Kestrel hate speak! You're confusing it with the hen harrier.

Few folk know that a group of 16 highly trained kestrels were used to power the first ever hovercraft. 

Nonsense, Hen Harrier is an aircraft