Kutztown FFA students enrolled in the Wildlife and Natural Resources class made Kestrel boxes to be placed throughout Berks County to provide nesting sites. Their dwindling numbers are due to habitat ...
Drive down a narrow farm road anywhere in the Connecticut River valley, and you might just see a colorful American kestrel, North America's smallest falcon perched on a wire and twitching its tail. In ...
In what began as a side project in 2022 for Berkshire Bird Observatory Executive Director Ben Nickley, The Kestrel Nest Box Project is on track to have added over 200 kestrels to the local population ...
It’s always a tense moment, watching the researchers walk down our dirt road with an empty basket in hand. Once the ladder is propped up on the telephone pole and a scientist climbs it – once the side ...
Four American kestrel falcon chicks have been born this spring in a nesting box set up in a Kane County forest preserve on the outskirts of Elgin. The offspring are the result of the Kane County ...
There is a type of treehouse in Dutchess County awaiting special visitors this spring. Not only do the nesting boxes aim to increase a declining Kestrel population in the mid-Hudson Valley, but an ...
TAYLOR – Richard Fritsky climbed a ladder at Waste Management Alliance Landfill and reached into a wooden nest box. The wildlife diversity biologist pulled out a 20-day-old American kestrel, flapping ...
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Our American kestrels need more nests. The numbers of North America’s smallest falcon have been in freefall since the 1960s and are now down by half due to loss of habitat, predation by Cooper’s hawks ...
Wooden nest boxes in the Treasure Valley house American kestrels, where they are observed by Idaho scientists. 2022 marks the 30th year of data collection on this declining species. Jim Shane You’ve ...
At some point in your life you have probably glanced out a car window and seen a medium-sized bird maniacally flapping its wings while hovering in place over a grassy median or side of the road. The ...
On northern Michigan cherry farms, a tiny falcon is quietly reshaping how growers think about both crop protection and food ...