Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Jul. 13—If you're lucky enough to spot an American kestrel swooping over a field or perched on a telephone line, you might thank ...

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 ...

The piping plovers received much attention in Chicago again, and it’s well deserved. The return of mating plovers is a continuing avian success story in an era in which shrinking habitats and ...

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 ...

Jul. 13—If you're lucky enough to spot an American kestrel swooping over a field or perched on a telephone line, you might thank Steve Wheeler. For 50 years, Wheeler has played a key role in keeping ...