Date: 12/3/25 12:46 pm From: Alan Contreras via groups.io <acontrer56...> Subject: Re: [NWCALBIRD] high kestrel numbers
I have not seen the recent raptor surveys done at Tillamook Bay and Coquille Valley in Oregon, but kestrel is typically quite uncommon in the Florence area (mid-Oregon coast) and I have seen a couple on just about every trip into appropriate habitat this fall, enough to think it’s an “up” year. Will be interesting to see what the CBCs at Port Orford and Florence turn up on the 14th. Coquille Valley is the 3rd and has by far the most habitat on the southern 2/3 of the Oregon coast.
Alan Contreras
Eugene, Oregon
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From: <NWCALBIRD...> <NWCALBIRD...> on behalf of Ken Burton via groups.io <shrikethree...>
Date: Wednesday, December 3, 2025 at 11:56 AM
To: Northwest calbird <NWCALBIRD...>
Subject: [NWCALBIRD] high kestrel numbers
Just as a point of interest, we had our highest count ever (33) of American Kestrel yesterday on the 55th run of our 27-mile Loleta-Ferndale winter raptor count (going back to December, 2007), smashing the old record of 26. Are others noticing high kestrel numbers this winter?
