RACINE COUNTY — It turns out that Kestrel Hawk Landfill is aptly named. On Monday afternoon, local birder Rick Fare watched three American kestrels through his binoculars at the landfill’s 10 ...

RACINE — The clock is ticking for the Kestrel Hawk Landfill, 1989 Oakes Road. Every year, said Division Manager Mike Williams, the company does a flyover survey of the site and reports how long ...

The American kestrel, as the sparrow hawk is now officially called, is a migrant. Thousands of them can be spotted passing by Hawk Mountain on their autumn sojourns but many are able to fend for ...

Female kestrels are larger and heavier than the males. Hawk Mountain researcher Mercy Melo holds a nestling American kestrel after banding the bird at the Blue Mountain Eagle Hiking Club's ...

Advocates worked with the chemical company to remove it, and the hawks stabilized. But so far, efforts to find a smoking gun for kestrel declines have been inconclusive. While some research ...

A few of them have imprinted on people that kept them for too long, like the American kestrel that Red Creek recently gave to the Hawk Mountain Sanctuary to be used for educational programs.

No matter, today a birder is more likely to refer to the species as the kestrel, not sparrow hawk. Specifically, it’s the American kestrel, a name derived from its close resemblance to the ...

Hawk Mountain is again hosting a 24/7 livestream “kestrel cam” located inside an American kestrel nest box installed by the Albany Township sanctuary. The American kestrel nest box program is ...