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 ...
Families of American kestrels could take up residence along Alcoa’s portion of the greenway soon, with their choice of some cozy nesting boxes. For Angie Scott, a City of Alcoa employee who built ...
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 ...
TRAVERSE CITY, Mich. – Northern Michigan fruit growers could achieve multiple benefits within their cherry orchards by helping to conserve American kestrels. Researchers at Michigan State University ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Michigan State University scientists led research that investigated a diminutive falcon, the American kestrel (Falco sparverius), ...
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 ...
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 ...