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 ...
Wooden nest boxes in the Treasure Valley house American kestrels, where they are observed by Idaho scientists. 2022 marks the 30th year of data collection on this declining species. Jim Shane You’ve ...
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 ...
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 ...
The male kestrel is the smallest falcon in our area. In fact, American kestrels are the smallest day-hunting raptor species in the United States (the night-hunting saw-whet owl is smaller), and like ...
At some point in your life you have probably glanced out a car window and seen a medium-sized bird maniacally flapping its wings while hovering in place over a grassy median or side of the road. The ...
While most people have heard of falcons, here’s a definition: A bird of prey, with long pointed wings and a notched beak, typically catching prey by diving upon it from above. Six species in the ...
NEW YORK--Bond trading system vendor Kestrel Technologies is at work on a new connectivity box called Konnekt that will link firms to alternative trading systems (ATSs) for bonds and provide an ...
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 ...
The Gazette offers audio versions of articles using Instaread. Some words may be mispronounced. Eagle-eyed motorists on Iowa’s interstate highways may have noticed what appear to be bird boxes mounted ...
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 ...