Here's a WIP render and teaser of my latest avian endeavors, "Kestrels, Hobbies & Falcons". While it might appear this model is close to release, it still needs to be out-rigged with morphs for the additional projects I have coming up. This mesh, besides being a Kestrel or Falcon, is expected to be a Hawk and Eagle too (including the Bald and Harpy Eagles). A little about the American Kestrel... Its breeding range extends from central and western Alaska across northern Canada to Nova Scotia, and south throughout North America, into central Mexico and the Caribbean. Kestrels hunt grasshoppers, lizards, mice, and small birds. They typically hunt by hovering in the air with rapid wing beats or perching, intensely scanning the ground for prey. Kestrels hide surplus kills in grass clumps, tree roots, bushes, fence posts, tree limbs, and cavities, to save the food for lean times or to hide it from thieves. Females are noticeably larger than males. They are one of the most colorful of all raptors. They are pale when seen from below and warm, rusty brown spotted with black above, with a black band near the tip of the tail. Males have slate-blue wings while the females' wings are reddish brown. Both sexes have pairs of black vertical slashes on the sides of their pale faces sometimes called a "mustache" and a "sideburn." (and yes, I'm doing the female too) It is the smallest falcon in North America and often called the "Sparrow Hawk". This "Sparrow Hawk" name is mistakenly connected with the Eurasian Sparrowhawk, which is in the genus Accipiter (True Hawk family). Rendered in Poser 2014 without any post work. Models: Flink's Sky Dome (Flink/Renderosity), Autumn Forest Superior (Andrey Pestryakov/DAZ3D), Songbird Remix Birds of Prey Volume I: Kestrels, Hobbies & Falcons and a branch from Songbird Remix Perching Places (Ken Gilliland/Hivewire3D)