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.

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 ...

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 ...

Idaho scientists are leading the charge to find out why. This year marks the 30th anniversary of Treasure Valley’s kestrel nest box project, one of the longest running kestrel monitoring ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...