American Kestrel

When an American kestrel nest box at Mt. Cuba Center was recently surveyed for signs of nesting success, the tiny leg bands placed on five healthy chicks by avian biologist Jordan Brown attested that a mating pair of kestrels had indeed succeeded in helping repopulate a species in precipitous decline. That verification was another milepost moment for the Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Control, which leads the Delaware Kestrel Partnership that is working to save the American kestrel, the smallest falcon in North America, which was listed as a state endangered species by Delaware in 2013.

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*Kestrel's grows so fast that when I missed a week of visiting them, they went from only the head is visible to them standing outside the nest*