We have been actively involved in placing and monitoring nest boxes for American Kestrels for many years now, and have tested many different box designs. This design by Art Gingert is the best we have seen and is well worth the time and effort needed to construct. This nest box will last many nesting seasons and provides far more room for developing young kestrels than typical boxes; and are easy to monitor, clean, and maintain.
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The American Kestrel is probably our most beautifully marked hawk. Females are uniformly rufous brown in color, while males have blue-gray wings and a rufous brown back. Both male and female have a mustached black and white face pattern. About the size of a blue jay, the kestrel is primarily a bird of open country and woodland borders. It is commonly seen in the characteristic pose of falcons; hunched up on high, exposed perches scanning the ground below for prey. They also hunt by pointing into the wind and hovering...
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