Plenty of science-based protocol guides the construction, placement and monitoring of nest boxes, but getting a kestrel pair to move in and raise a family is still hit or miss. Fermilab in Batavia ...

The nest-box placement at the Rentschler Arboretum ... assist Hawk Mountain researcher Mercy Melo with banding American kestrel nestlings at the club's Rentschler Arboretum near Bernville.

and monitoring adults and hatchlings during the breeding season to determine if nest box placement resulted in reproductive success. “The American kestrel happens to be a bird that is suffering ...

The kestrel account concluded thusly ... A combination of habitat improvement and nest-box placement can only help the charismatic little falcons to not only survive, but hopefully thrive.

Researchers want to measure the effect nest boxes have on local kestrel populations by mounting hundreds of the homes in southern Alachua, northern Marion and eastern Levy counties. Information ...

Being a bird landlord and managing a nest box is an exciting way to help your feathered neighbors, but it comes with great responsibility. According to Dan Sparks, who has been involved with ...

That's where Wheeler and others like him around the country come in. His is one of 33 kestrel nest box projects in the Northeast, he said. Wheeler is a graduate of the University of New Hampshire ...

Karner is a federally licensed bird bander, and he uses his ladder to monitor more than 120 kestrel nesting boxes throughout Northampton County. In the past six months alone, Karner has driven ...

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.

ECAS manages a kestrel nest box monitoring project, in which they install and monitor American Kestrel nest boxes throughout Central Oregon. Since kestrels will readily foster orphaned nestlings ...