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The breeding range of the lesser kestrel (Falco naumanni) in the central-eastern Mediterranean area is shifting northwards due to climate change. LIFE FALKON is fostering resilience by improving the conservation status of the population at the north-eastern edge of its breeding range in Italy and Greece. The project will provide increased nesting opportunities, including nest boxes and towers, promote favourable rural development and building renovation practices, and establish a network of conservationists focused on populations crucial for the species’ northward breeding expansion.
The Project
Latest News
Installation of nest boxes in the Po Plain Area
21 June 2021
Life Falkon has conducted a winter field survey to assess the distribution of potential safe sites on where to install nest-boxes for the lesser kestrel. We will install 100 boxes on recently restored buildings and ...
Read more >Winter conference at the SOM: LIFE FALKON among the invited speakers!
21 June 2021
As every year, SOM/Cisniar is celebrating the winter with a party and a scientific conference about conservation of local birdlife and biodiversity. As in 2018, LIFE FALKON is again among the invited speakers, this time ...
Read more >LIFE FALKON at 3rdNatura 2000 seminar!
13 May 2021
Between the 4th and 7th May the 3rd Seminar of Natura 2000 for the Mediterranean Region took place online, hosted by the Italian Regione Calabria and the Sila National Park. The Seminar is part of the Natura 2000 Biogeographic Process, launched in 2011 by ...
Read more >LIFE FALKON meets DEMA PRIMILLA!
6 May 2021
On 5th May, LIFE FALKON hosted an on-line networking event, with the participation of Spanish non- profit organization DEMA PRIMILLA. It is an NGO that since 30 years have been working on studying and protecting the Lesser Kestrel. Indeed, DEMA produced ...
Read more >Field monitoring visits in the Po Plain!
4 May 2021
On the 23rd of April a field monitoring visit took place in the Italian project areas located in the Emilia Romagna region. Michelangelo Morganti from CNR-IRSA, lead partner of LIFE Falkon, welcomed the project ...
Read more >LIFE Falkon as project of the month!
30 March 2021
Since 2017, the Ministry of Ecological Transition has dedicated a column to all Italian LIFE projects of the 2014-2020 period called the “Project of the Month“, which can be consulted on the Ministry’s website. The column aims to facilitate ...
Read more >New homes for the Lesser Kestrels in Komotini (Greece)
26 March 2021
HOS installs nest-boxes to welcome back home the endangered falcons! Spring marks the return of the Lesser Kestrels in the plain of Komotini, northeastern Greece. The Hellenic Ornithological Society / BirdLife Greece ...
Read more >Setting up of the nesting towers in the Po Plain
28 February 2021
The LIFE FALKON staff guided by the project partners ISPRA, has concluded a three-days rush of works to set up the nesting towers in the Po Plain. Built during the winter, these three towers (two more are still in ...
Read more >Nestbox installation in the Po Plain
24 November 2020
The LIFE FALKON staff has concluded the installation of 200 nestboxes for Lesser Kestrel in the project area located in the Po Plain, between Mantova and Comacchio. A hundred nestboxes were installed on 18 buildings for which formal agreements with landowners ...
Read more >Nesting tower for lesser kestrel of the Po Plain
20 December 2019
Not only nest boxes: LIFE FALKON is fostering the recovery and the expansion of the northern population of lesser kestrel with the construction of small buildings entirely dedicated to the species! Tens of ...
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Upcoming Events
20 April 2021
LIFE FALKON meets DEMA primilla
online meeting
22 December 2019
Winter conference at the SOM: LIFE FALKON among the invited speakers!
Mirandola (MO)
26 November 2019
Communications webinar for LIFE beneficiaries
26 August 2019
LIFE FALKON at the European Congress of Ornithology
Cluj-Napoca (Romania)
10 September 2019
Technical meeting – Projecting the nesting towers for Lesser Kestrels of the Po Plain
ISPRA - Ozzano dell'Emilia (Bologna)
