Great was my happiness to find them still there, as well as the daws and all the other feathered people who make this great building their home; even the kestrels were not wanting.
"Afoot in England"
W.H. Hudson
We shall find game for goshawks, kestrels, jer-falcons, merlins, and every sort.
"The White Gauntlet"
Mayne Reid
Now you may see the kestrels hovering in mid air, and the great sluggish heron wending his ethereal way to the upper waters of the trout stream.
"A Cotswold Village"
J. Arthur Gibbs