Soaring through the skies of Missouri is a bird of prey smaller than the rest, but one that still makes a mighty impact. The American kestrel is a small falcon that is more common in Missouri during ...

Have you ever wanted to make art in the presence of a bird of prey? Thanks to an army of dedicated people who have made it their job to protect threatened and injured birds, dozens of rescued raptors ...

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 ...

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Today, Brooklyn Bird Watch features a Heather Wolf photo of the male American Kestrel, North America’s smallest falcon, as photographed in Brooklyn Bridge Park. This raptor is about the size of a ...

A quick look could cause us to mistake an American kestrel for a mourning dove perched on a wire. But a careful look reveals a bird with a beak like a hawk. It’s a diminutive falcon, at about ...