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Winter Banded Kestrels

Submitted 4 years 1 month ago by CalvertKestrels.

Hello everyone,

Starlings and Territory range

Submitted 4 years 3 days ago by rstephens.

Hello, our center has started our pilot year of box monitoring.

We had a couple question:

1. How do you combat starlings trying to nest in the box

2. What is the typical territory range for kestrels.

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Submitted 3 years 12 months ago by Administrator - The Peregrine Fund.

This general discussion has been moved to a new, simplified format.  All posts from 2018 through today, March 28 2019, have been copied to the new AKP General Discussion Forum

Pair of Kestrels in my backyard

Submitted 4 years 1 week ago by jjgblue.

Hi, I am new to the group and new to Kestrels.  I live on 3 acres outside of Ashland, OH with an open large backyard, lined with dead trees.  We have a chicken coop on the edge of the yard and yesterday I noticed the cutest bird on top.  After getting

FINALLY may have a pair of Kestrels

Submitted 4 years 1 week ago by davidmccarty.

I own 64 acres in SE Indiana that I moved from mainly hay fields to native warm season grasses about 10 years ago.  Around that time I put up Kestrel boxes but was unsuccessful in attracting a pair.  During the winter I would ususally get a female that

Question on Kestrel Nest Boxes

Submitted 4 years 1 month ago by cnelson.

I am using the American Kestrel Nest Box Plan as designed by Art Gingert.

LIVE STREAM

Submitted 4 years 3 weeks ago by Nu-Sun Cinema.

Hi All,  By now you all have received the news the AKP will not be hosting a live stream in 2019.This is unfortunate but leaves more funds for important reserch. We at Nu-Sun Cinema are continueing our HD LIVE STREAM of the Kestrels for the 6th year.

Nest Box Substrate

Submitted 4 years 3 months ago by drelys.

I recently saw a Cornell Lab video of a Kestrel box where the substrate at the bottom of the box was some sort of pebble mix instead of say wood shavings. Is this a better/worse substrate for the eggs or does it work against European Starlings better?

HOLE SIZE FOR NEST BOXES

Submitted 4 years 2 months ago by Nu-Sun Cinema.

During our experimental boxes we also have discoverd that an oval hole is very feasible for the nestlings when they are near fledge.

Pulley System to raise and lower large nest boxes

Submitted 4 years 6 months ago by Lee Pauser.

On August 29th, 2018 Santa Clara County Park's (CA) Natural Resource Coordinator Kyle and I installed a pulley system on a Barn Owl nest box mounted on a 2" diameter metal pipe.