Eurasian Kestrel Nest Box Cam

An Intimate Window on Falcon Family Life

This camera looks straight down into a kestrel nest box fixed roughly eight metres up an aspen tree in Krape Parish. Viewers watch the fluffy chicks jostle, doze and beg as the parents deliver prey, a privileged vantage that field naturalists rarely enjoy.

The Eurasian Kestrel

The Eurasian kestrel (Falco tinnunculus) is a small, agile falcon famed for its hovering hunting flight. It feeds chiefly on small rodents, lizards and large insects, and a typical clutch of three to eight eggs is incubated for about four weeks before the young fledge.

A Conservation Project

The box is one of twenty installed across Ogre and Aizkraukle municipalities by Latvian ornithologists to support breeding kestrels. The live-stream camera, run by the Latvian Nature Fund, turns a long-running monitoring effort into public science outreach.

A Window on Latvian Wildlife

Set amid the forests and farmland of central Latvia, the nest box reflects a landscape rich in raptors. Returning each spring from western wintering grounds, these falcons make the box a living showcase of the region's natural heritage.