Fledging Frenzy! All Five Kestrel Chicks Leave Nest Box In 24 Hours

The chicks from the American Kestrel Cam all fledged within 24 hours on June 16–17. Let’s watch them leave the nest box in this fledging compilation! Watch the cams live at The American Kestrel cam is a collaboration between the Cornell Lab or Ornithology and the Raptor Resource Project. This American Kestrel pair is nesting in a gravel-bottomed nest on private property near Prairie Du Chien, Wisconsin. The nest box is located on the side of a traditional limestone-footed barn, overlooking a rolling grassland that slopes away into folded hills and forests. Our partners at the Raptor Resource Project have watched kestrels breed at this site for over 25 years, and the wonderful combination of grassland, forest, and water that surrounds the property is an excellent example of the habitat that kestrels need to survive and thrive. Watch cam. The young birds begin to hatch out of their eggs after about a month of incubation. Over the following