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 ...

Rangers said the birds of prey had "taken a shine" this year to the nesting boxes, first put up in 2007. Since the project was launched, 21 barn owl chicks and nine kestrel chicks have hatched in ...

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 ...

Those boxes produced 30 kestrels in 2013/14. The Ohio Ornithological Society placed numerous kestrel nest boxes at The Wilds in Muskingum County, many of which produced falcons. Legendary nest box ...

About 30 years ago, John Smallwood, a professor of biology at Montclair State University, set up 100 nest boxes in what should be some of New Jersey’s prime kestrel habitat, attaching them to ...

They can learn if the birds nest in another monitored box or ... Cats kill birds, including fledging kestrels. • Consider a kestrel box. The Estes Park nonprofit Colorado Avian Research ...