RACINE — With the news that the Kestrel Hawk landfill will be closing next year, and the steps the City of Racine will take to manage its trash, some in the suburbs are wondering what their ...

ROANOKE, Va. – The Southwest Virginia Wildlife Center is holding a Gala later this month. It’s their biggest fundraiser of the year, and John Carlin will be the auctioneer this year! Here, you can ...

RACINE - The operator of Racine's landfill agreed Thursday to pay $475,000 to settle an environmental enforcement lawsuit against it, the same day it was filed in Racine County Circuit Court. The ...

Masked and gloved to protect the small falcon from any possibility of avian flu exposure, Mercy Melo gently placed a female American kestrel nestling onto the digital scale she had set up on a card ...

A quick look could cause us to mistake an American kestrel for a mourning dove perched on a wire. But a careful look reveals a bird with a beak like a hawk. It’s a diminutive falcon, at about ...

At some point in your life you have probably glanced out a car window and seen a medium-sized bird maniacally flapping its wings while hovering in place over a grassy median or side of the road. The ...

It’s always a tense moment, watching the researchers walk down our dirt road with an empty basket in hand. Once the ladder is propped up on the telephone pole and a scientist climbs it – once the side ...

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My eyes shot open, and I leapt out of bed. This was the alarm clock I’d been waiting for — my favorite time of the year. The kestrel chicks had just fledged and were screaming to their parents for ...

Hawk Mountain Sanctuary has received a $246,000 grant from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation to help imperiled farmland raptors. The grant is one of 30 ...