I am glad that it has warmed up and that it is time to band kestrels! Thirty volunteers for Madison Audubon’s Kestrel Nestbox Monitoring Program were busy in March cleaning out kestrel boxes, and we’re now seeing the results of their work. This nestbox program has two primary goals: 1) provide clean, abundant nest sites for kestrels to raise their young, and 2) create opportunities to band both adults and chicks to study their migration patterns, demographics, nesting preferences, and more.

Photo by Jim Stewart