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 ...

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 ...

Kestrels, colorful little birds with a big attitude, are the smallest members of the falcon family, not much bigger than a robin. If you were a falconer in 15th-century England with very little social ...

Wildlife Biologist Jessica Carloni recently accompanied retired Fish and Game biologist Steve Wheeler to assist with banding kestrel chicks. With landowner permission, Wheeler constructs kestrel ...

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 ...

The story of a young American kestrel brought to Wildwoods is the story of Wildwoods' pursuit of its mission to return rescued animals to the wild. It exemplifies the old adage, "If at first you don't ...

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 ...

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 ...

Once known as the Sparrow Hawk, this little dynamo is common along country roadsides, sitting on telephone wires, to scope out its prey. The sparrow hawk has been renamed as the American Kestrel, when ...