Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... JEFFERSON COUNTY —Tom Bush thought he’d get some woodpeckers when he put some bird boxes on his home 10 years ago, but instead he might play a part in ...

Our American kestrels need more nests. The numbers of North America’s smallest falcon have been in freefall since the 1960s and are now down by half due to loss of habitat, predation by Cooper’s hawks ...

In "Descent of Their Last End," the new video from Kestrels, fuzzy images of the Halifax, Nova Scotia band's performance are broadcast on a wandering TV set and in the surrounding environment. The ...

The American kestrel is an expert hunter that fills its stomach on a variety of insects, small birds and rodents. But as North America’s smallest falcon, the kestrel sometimes finds itself on the ...

Masked and gloved to protect the small falcon from any possibility of avian flu exposure, Mercy Melo gently placed a female American kestrel nestling onto the digital scale she had set up on a card ...

American kestrels, small colorful falcons often seen perched along roadways, are abundant in urban and agricultural areas. Shorter grass makes insects, snakes, mice and other prey more visible, and ...

Jim Anderson leaned a ladder against the ponderosa snag and climbed to the nesting box overhead. Dust and debris tumbled out as, one by one, Anderson carefully removed five tiny birds of prey and ...

New insights into the secrets of hovering kestrels could help delivery drones navigate the gusty air in cities, scientists at the University of Bristol and RMIT University in Australia suggest. The ...

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 ...