It’s always a tense moment, watching the researchers walk down our dirt road with an empty basket in hand. Once the ladder is propped up on the telephone pole and a scientist climbs it – once the side ...

Wildlife Biologist Jessica Carloni recently accompanied retired Fish and Game biologist Steve Wheeler to assist with banding kestrel chicks. With landowner permission, Wheeler constructs kestrel ...

My eyes shot open, and I leapt out of bed. This was the alarm clock I’d been waiting for — my favorite time of the year. The kestrel chicks had just fledged and were screaming to their parents for ...

A family of kestrels featured for the last five years on YouTube has again been successful in hatching their eggs. The first chick breaking through the egg was caught on video, allowing the world to ...

FRANKLIN - Danny Erickson of Wauwatosa reached into a 5-gallon bucket and used both hands to lift a portion of its contents into view. The technique wasn't required by weight. Erickson needed to ...

Pictures show three young kestrels, rarely seen in Europe, peeking their heads out of a nest perched in a tree in London. The three young chicks were photographed by Lawrence Chatton, who happened ...

At some point in your life you have probably glanced out a car window and seen a medium-sized bird maniacally flapping its wings while hovering in place over a grassy median or side of the road. The ...

DUGWAY PROVING GROUND, Utah — The final American kestrel banding of the season took place July 8, near Victory Garden in English Village, capping off months of monitoring with a close encounter of the ...

The five fuzzy kestrel hatchlings were surprisingly quiet as researcher Scott Rashid examined them last week at Loveland’s Eagle Vista Natural Area, but he took that as a good sign. “What’s really ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Common kestrels - Falco tinnunculus, European kestrels, Eurasian kestrels, Old World kestrels in grass at brown background. Photo ...