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Beginning falconer and effect on resident kestrel family

Submitted 9 years 9 months ago by hope stanton.

A neighbor is training to become a falconer and recently caught a juvenile kestrel from a family of kestrels across the road from us to begin her training.

American Kestrel female recieves a prosthetic wing stump

Submitted 9 years 5 months ago by Delorahilleary.

In today's Kestrel News, a female kestrel recieved a wing prosthetic to improve her balance and quality of life.

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Nestcam options!

Submitted 11 years 3 months ago by American Kestrel Partnership.

[Archive Post from old site - Original author: Matt Giovanni]

http://www.spyonabird.com/

Kestrel Internship Opportunity

Submitted 9 years 5 months ago by Delorahilleary.

The Brandywine Zoo, an AKP partner, posted this fairly recently: [link to page]

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A slightly safer method of mounting boxes on poles

Submitted 9 years 6 months ago by Julian.

My wife doesn't like to see her acrophobic septuagenarian husband on a ladder struggling to attach a kestrel nest box to a utility pole, and I don't like it, either.

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American Kestrels versus Grasshoppers

Submitted 9 years 6 months ago by Delorahilleary.

I spotted this local news article about American Kestrels, talking about the Kestrel's impact on grasshoppers.

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Migration Season is underway!

Submitted 9 years 7 months ago by Delorahilleary.

American Kestrels in the Northern Hemisphere migrate to the tropics or subtropics. However, we do not know much about the life of a kestrel on their wintering grounds!