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A kestrel is a type of bird.
- Common kestrel, the most common species
 
Kestrel may also refer to:
Aerospace, aviation, vehicles
[edit]- Kestrel (rocket engine)
 - Kestrel, the Glasflügel 401 fibreglass glider
- The Slingsby Kestrel, UK version of this glider
 
 - Hawker Siddeley P.1127 "Kestrel", a prototype of the Hawker Siddeley Harrier aircraft
 - Miles Kestrel, a private venture aircraft developed into the Miles Master
 - Rolls-Royce Kestrel, a piston engine
 - Kestrel, a British Rail HS4000 prototype diesel locomotive
 - Riley Kestrel, a badge-engineered version of the BMC ADO16 or Morris 1100 car
 - KESTREL, the call sign of UK-based Thomas Cook Airlines
 - VH-71 Kestrel helicopter
 - Kestrel K-350, a prototype turboprop aircraft
 - Kestrel (surveillance system)
 - Seedwings Europe Kestrel, an Austrian hang glider design
 
Boats
[edit]Computer software
[edit]- "Kestrel", an open source web server for ASP.NET Core
 - "Kestrel", codename for the J2SE 1.3 release of the Java programming language
 - "Kestrel", codename for Opera web browser version 9.5
 - Kestrel Institute, a spin-off company of SRI International
 
Fiction and entertainment
[edit]Books
[edit]- The Kestrel, a novel by Lloyd Alexander
 - Kestrel, a character in The Farseer Trilogy by Robin Hobb
 
Comics
[edit]- Kestrel (DC Comics), a comics character, supervillain antagonist of Hawk and Dove
 - Kestrel (Marvel Comics), a comics character, a test subject of the Weapon X Project
 - Kestrel, the main character of the web comic Queen of Wands
 
Games
[edit]- The Kestrel, the default unlocked and first playable ship in the roguelike space exploration game FTL: Faster Than Light
 - Kestrel, a foe in the computer game Rogue
 - Kestrel, spaceship in the massively-multiplayer online game Eve Online
 - CVN-30, OFS Kestrel, a ship in the Ace Combat video games
 - The Atinoda Kestrel, a spaceship in the Escape Velocity video game trilogy
 - McDonnell S2B Kestrel, an airplane in the computer game Crimson Skies
 - Kestrel, a playable character in the computer game Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell: Conviction
 - Kestrel, a collection of modular armor pieces in the video game Mass Effect 2
 - Kestrel, a playable character and an archer in the video game Vainglory
 - Kestrel, a group of female human-vampire assassins descended from birds in the video game BloodRayne 2
 
Music
[edit]- Kestrel, a song by the band Scale the Summit from their album V
 
Other
[edit]- Kestrel coal mine, a coal mine operated by Rio Tinto Coal Australia
 - Kestrel (rocket launcher), a Taiwanese anti-tank weapon
 - Kestrel USA, an American bicycle manufacturer
 - The Melbourne Kestrels, an Australian netball team
 - Viking Kestrel, a children's book imprint