Hello,
today while walking through a park (not in the inner city but at the edge of the city and only separated by a smaller forest from extensive fields) I noticed a small raptor being chased by a magpie. Sadly I don‘t have any pictures but may be you can help me nevertheless.
They flew over me very fast and were out of sight behind some trees in just a 2-3 seconds. I‘m pretty sure it was a falcon and initially thought of kestrel. But the magpie was little bigger than the raptor (longer and also the wingspan seemed to be a bit wider). From my understanding a kestrels wingspan normally would be larger than a magpies. So is this still in size variation for kestrel/magpie? If not, Hobby or Merlin instead of Kestrel (I am not too familiar with Merlin)? As I said only saw the birds underside for 2-3 seconds as they were flying at full speed.
today while walking through a park (not in the inner city but at the edge of the city and only separated by a smaller forest from extensive fields) I noticed a small raptor being chased by a magpie. Sadly I don‘t have any pictures but may be you can help me nevertheless.
They flew over me very fast and were out of sight behind some trees in just a 2-3 seconds. I‘m pretty sure it was a falcon and initially thought of kestrel. But the magpie was little bigger than the raptor (longer and also the wingspan seemed to be a bit wider). From my understanding a kestrels wingspan normally would be larger than a magpies. So is this still in size variation for kestrel/magpie? If not, Hobby or Merlin instead of Kestrel (I am not too familiar with Merlin)? As I said only saw the birds underside for 2-3 seconds as they were flying at full speed.