{"id":709295,"date":"2026-06-17T09:55:27","date_gmt":"2026-06-17T09:55:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/709295\/"},"modified":"2026-06-17T09:55:27","modified_gmt":"2026-06-17T09:55:27","slug":"american-kestrels-to-return-to-wild-after-rehabilitation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/709295\/","title":{"rendered":"American kestrels to return to wild after rehabilitation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>GRAND TRAVERSE COUNTY, Mich., (WPBN\/WGTU) &#8212; The North Sky Raptor Sanctuary will release two rehabilitated American kestrels back into the wild Monday evening, June 15, in Grand Traverse County.<\/p>\n<p>The birds, Michigan&#8217;s smallest raptors, were both admitted to the sanctuary with spinal trauma injuries.<\/p>\n<p>The female kestrel arrived in December, while the male was admitted in March.<\/p>\n<p>The event is weather dependent and will take place at Chateau Chantal Winery in Grand Traverse County.<\/p>\n<p>Attendees will hear the story of the birds&#8217; rehabilitation and learn about the role kestrels may play for wineries on Old Mission Peninsula.<\/p>\n<p>The release is scheduled for Monday, June 15, at 5:30 p.m.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"GRAND TRAVERSE COUNTY, Mich., (WPBN\/WGTU) &#8212; The North Sky Raptor Sanctuary will release two rehabilitated American kestrels back&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":709296,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[51],"tags":[79,201],"class_list":["post-709295","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wildlife","tag-science","tag-wildlife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/709295","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=709295"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/709295\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/709296"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=709295"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=709295"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=709295"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}