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 ...

This article originally appeared on Inside Climate News, a nonprofit, non-partisan news organization that covers climate, ...

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 ...

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 ...

By keeping rodents and small fruit-eating birds out of the orchards, kestrels were found to be an effective means of pest ...

On northern Michigan cherry farms, a tiny falcon is quietly reshaping how growers think about both crop protection and food ...

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 ...

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 ...

Birds instinctively know where to find shelter, but we can help them survive a tough winter, writes Hans Kunze.

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 ...

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 ...