American Kestrel Nest Box Program

Here are free american kestrel nest box plans information and tips when building and placing your box.

American kestrel nest box program.

Photo courtesy of megan hines. Landowners may be able to help the southeastern american kestrel by putting up nest boxes on their property. Download the kestrel nest box application. Because american kestrels don t create their own nests they will choose a variety of cavity types.

Take hwy 287 north off of i 40 take the n. The american kestrel is north america s smallest falcon and unlike its larger cousins this beautiful little bird chooses to nest in cavities i e holes in trees or other objects such as utility poles and buildings. Today more than 200 kestrel nest boxes have been placed within a 25 mile radius of hawk mountain and each year the boxes are cleaned and monitored for signs of activity. They do not excavate their own nest cavities but use natural cavities or old holes created by woodpeckers mainly flickers.

Find plans and helpful tips. Our nest box project contributes data to a continent wide research program conducted by the american kestrel partnership which is a creation of the peregrine fund we enter our nesting data on american kestrel partnership s website. Amarillo zoo s american kestrel nest box partnership program. American kestrel nest box plan and information.

American kestrels will readily use boxes for breeding during spring and even roosting during winter. Right bird right house interactive. Do you want to build a nest box or have one already. Features of a good birdhouse infographic.

They will also accept artificial nest boxes placed in suitable habitat which is open areas such as pastures and hay fields. The amarillo zoo is located in thompson park. Installing american kestrel nest boxes. Installing a nest box camera slideshow.

The kestrel box initiative was met with enthusiastic community involvement and made possible by a grant from the new jersey fish and wildlife endangered and nongame species program which funded materials for 50 kestrel nesting boxes. American kestrel nest boxes instructions for assembly and installation about the american kestrel. American kestrel nest box program hawk mountain sanctuary has been studying the breeding wintering and migratory habits of american kestrels for more than 50 years. This includes barn and roof crevices old woodpecker cavities and constructed nest boxes.

American kestrels are cavity nesters. Life history the american kestrel falco sparverius is distributed throughout north america in open habitats grasslands open marshes agricultural lands parks and urban areas. Reporting to the american kestrel partnership. Exit and go west turn right into thompson park and follow the.

However large expanses of kestrel habitat occur on private lands throughout the northern and central peninsula.