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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

ARLINGTON - Janet Eschenbauch of Amherst Junction balanced atop a ladder and peaked inside a wooden nest box perched 10-feet above a grassy field. As she nudged open a side panel, the structure's ...

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 ...

It’s always a tense moment, watching the researchers walk down our dirt road with an empty basket in hand. Once the ladder is propped up on the telephone pole and a scientist climbs it – once the side ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

CAMBRIDGE, Md. - Researchers hope to reverse the steady disappearance of Maryland’s most common falcon here on the Eastern Shore using breeding boxes in Dorchester County. According to the Blackwater ...

The American kestrel does not have a taste for mint or peppermint – but it is a friend to those who do. Just ask Phil Hassinger, an environmentally conscious Union County farmer. Hassinger is using ...

Most American kestrels are winging their way south for winter now, heading from the fields and meadows of Minnesota and Canada down to warmer climes. Exactly where the little falcons go, however, has ...