The population of the smallest falcon in North America is becoming even smaller but there's a way Utahns can help for free.
For a decade, a team of researchers from Hawkwatch International has been studying hundreds of Kestrel Falcons in Utah’s urban environments to find how why their numbers are declining.
"We usually band about maybe 500 each season," she explained."So about maybe 100 to 200 adults depending on the year and then maybe 400 nestlings."Kestrel parents weren't too happy with the disruption to their fledglings but the goal is to complete the process safely, quietly and quickly. "It could be a lot of things, nesting habitat, or available cavities," Taylor said."It could be predation, on those nest adult survival, things like, you know, pesticides, or rodenticides in the environment. So a lot of researchers are looking into that right now...hopefully, we'll come up with an answer.
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