On a warm but blustery morning 22 “birders” crisscrossed Cascade County's fields, streams and wetlands to take the measure of local bird populations. Dec. 17 marked the 50 th annual Christmas Bird ...
There was some mild screeching as Adrienne Fors and Kevin Kelly handled American kestrels born just this year in bird boxes on the grounds of a Northampton County landfill. Kelly, who works at the ...
SPRINGFIELD — Ben Nickley didn’t pay much attention to birds, right up until he took a class about them at Ohio State University. “I’ve always been interested in nature and the natural world, but I ...
North America's littlest falcon, the American Kestrel packs a predator's fierce intensity into its small body. It's one of the most colorful of all raptors: the male's slate-blue head and wings ...
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Why is America’s Smallest Falcon Disappearing?
KEMPTON, Pa. — One of Mother Nature’s tiniest, yet fiercest hunters faces an uncertain future. The American Kestrel, North America’s smallest and most common falcon, has been steadily declining across ...
Every spring, raptors return to nesting sites across northern Michigan. The smallest of these birds of prey, a falcon called the American kestrel (Falco sparverius), flies through the region’s many ...
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