🏠✨ Exciting news from our American Kestrel nesting box research program! We now have 18 active boxes across Vermont and New Hampshire - from South Hero to Quechee to Rutland! 📍 Three boxes installed just this winter are already showing amazing success, with pairs actively incubating eggs. Most boxes have full clutches of 5 eggs, and our camera-equipped box in Strafford is giving us incredible real-time footage of the nesting process! 📹🥚 | Vermont Institute of Natural Science (VINS)

American Kestrel Release - Part 2/2 This young male Kestrel was released recently on the grounds of TWC. The nest box that he was found in, orphaned from his family, is located not far from Tamarack in the surrounding fields. He would have naturally fledged into this region had he grown up in the wild. American Kestrels are a species in decline in the wild. Research has shown a steady decline in their nationwide population of 1.4% every year. While that number may seem low, it's estimated that N