8.
LETTER TO THE EDITOR
Dear Sir,
STUDY OF THE KESTREL -
BIOLOGICALLY AND ECOLOGICALLY
This is an appeal for Kestrel casts
(pellets) to analyse and determine their diet.
Large numbers of pellets are needed to
provide reasonable data, over the next 18
months.
People who could help please contact me
at Redbridge Technical College, Little Heath,
Romford, Essex (Biology Dept.) or tel: 01-
599-5231 Ext. 49.
This work is for a project for the finals
of my B.Sc. Life Science being read at the
North East London Polytechnic and this data
will be correlated to the National Survey of
Kestrels which is in operation at the present
time. The final product could help people to
understand this bird in more detail biologi-
cally and ecologically. Although kestrels
seem to be on the
increase, certain
amounts of this
data could be
applied to other
rarer birds of
prey, with the
hope that they
will eventually
become a more
common sight in
the environment.
To be
useful, all