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 ...

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 ...

FALL CREEK, Wis.—Judy Scharzmeier climbed the ladder with an empty beer case and high expectations, but when she peered into the kestrel nesting box there were no little kestrels to greet her. Only ...

Ask bird-watchers about the American kestrel, and they’ll describe how this smallest of falcons perches on wires or atop poles, or hovers, facing the wind, flapping and adjusting its long tail to stay ...

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 ...

Judy Scharzmeier climbed the ladder with an empty beer case and high expectations, but when she peered into the kestrel nesting box there were no little kestrels to greet her. Only five cold eggs. 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...