We’ve partnered with the Dane County Humane Society’s Wildlife Center to identify a few common wild bird encounters: is it normal, or does the bird need help?
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The Great American Kestrel Rescue of 2023
Last week, Madison Audubon staff and Kestrel Nest Box Monitoring volunteers collaborated with the Dane County Humane Society’s Wildlife Center, Sauk County Humane Society, and a couple conscientious citizens in an effort to reunite some displaced American Kestrel nestlings with their parents.
Photo by Kaitlin Svabek/Madison Audubon
One of these is not like the others
North America’s smallest falcon, the American kestrel, is getting a leg-up in south-central Wisconsin. Four orphaned kestrel chicks were discovered and brought in for rehabilitation, and placed into foster kestrel nests that allowed the chicks to be raised by wild mothers with nestlings their own age. This effort was done in partnership between Madison Audubon, Central Wisconsin Kestrel Research program, and Dane County Humane Society’s Wildlife Center.
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