American Kestrel Falco sparverius
Case 3
Fledgling Kestrels returned to parents at the Birmingham Airport
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Airports, with their open fields and large buildings,
provide ideal habitat for Kestrels, and the Alabama Wildlife Center gets
frequent calls about fledging mishaps at the Birmingham Airport. In the
summer of 2005, we received downed fledglings from hangars on two
different sides of the airport at about the same time. Since both birds
were healthy, I took both of them back to their nest areas a few days
later. In the noisy surroundings, a Kestrel alarm call was found to be
more effective than food-begging calls, and as soon as an adult Kestrel
was spotted, each juvenile was released into thick shrubbery adjacent to
the hangars.
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