Texas Birds

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American Kestrel • Very colorful, small falcon • Often found on roadside utility lines or fences • Call is a whistled “klee klee klee” • Less common in Oaks and Prairies, Osage Plains and Pineywoods Birds of prey may be seen perched along roadways, perched conspicuously in vegetation or soaring over fields. Often,

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