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 ...

WARREN, Minn. -- With considerable help from their friends at PKM Electric Cooperative, Agassiz Audubon's "Community Nest Watch Project" last week created ready-to-move-in housing for American ...

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 ...

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 ...

Masked and gloved to protect the small falcon from any possibility of avian flu exposure, Mercy Melo gently placed a female American kestrel nestling onto the digital scale she had set up on a card ...

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 ...

DuPage Forest Preserve places nest boxes to support local population of smallest falcon If you told me the American kestrel was your favorite bird, I'd say you've made a fine choice. The kestrel, the ...

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 ...

On March 17, 2013, The Dispatch ran a story describing the initiation of an American kestrel nest-box trail. The kestrel, our smallest falcon, requires cavities for nest sites, and suitable homes have ...

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 ...