American Kestrels As of June 26, Dick Phillips and I have made nine monitoring trips to 18 kestrel nestboxes that make up the Delaware County Kestrel project that was launched in 1993. Since the project’s first nest in 1996, our continent’s smallest falcons have fledged 1,164 offspring. Five of our latest visits, starting with May […]
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Audubon cares about bird conservation in the US, but also across the entire Western Hemisphere. After all, many of the birds that we treasure most, such as the beautiful warblers that we flock to see in May, spend the majority of the year migrating and living in Central and South America. And many of these
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The Washington Post recently ran an article highlighting research by Prof Chris Tonra from The Ohio State University. Chris, who has spoken at Columbus Audubon programs in the past, headed research that located the wintering range for the species. The numbers of Prothonotary Warblers showing up in the US and Canada have declined significantly in
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While I walked the boardwalk at Magee Marsh in early May, marveling at the beauty of wood warblers, I was struck by the absence of flycatchers. Yeah, there were a few Eastern Kingbirds around and the odd Least Flycatcher, but most of our common flycatchers were conspicuously absent. That’s not that unusual – early May
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Most of the veteran Ospreys are back from Brazil and other wintering spots in South America. After the Osprey team reestablished AC-1 at the northern end of Alum Creek Lake off of Hogback Road on March 13, a male Osprey started adding sticks the following day. However, while I visited the area during the following
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Dick Tuttle tells us more about how he and Dick Phillips prepare Kestrel nest boxes for a new spring nesting season.
Nestbox Duties Between Nesting Seasons: Part 2 Read More »
