Helpful Posts: Can anyone ID this Kestrels prey? Its green, appears to have 4 legs towards the front and pale stripes on the belly.Large Grasshopper of some sort? Taken last summer at Newquay in Cornwall.
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7th February 2017, 02:01 PM #1
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7th February 2017, 02:06 PM #2
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Re: ID of prey item?
I can't help you, sorry; but this is an excellent image
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7th February 2017, 03:03 PM #3
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Agree on quality of image, usually with specimen id location of capture helps.
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7th February 2017, 06:48 PM #4
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My guess would be grasshopper/cricket of some type.
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7th February 2017, 07:03 PM #5
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From the size of the insect, I would say it is a Great Green Bush-cricket Tettigonia viridissima. It is difficult to tell because the Kestrel is holding the back end and you cannot see the antennae (which are very long in bush-crickets).
John
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7th February 2017, 07:12 PM #6
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Thanks John.
Ive just Googled it and I think you may well be right.
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7th February 2017, 10:33 PM #7
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Super image.
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