Kirsten Elliott

Migration Is On! Why Aren’t Most Hawkwatchers Counting?

News, Press Releases

In the northern hemisphere, many raptor species breeding in North America migrate south in the fall and return north in the spring. Organizations like HawkWatch International (HWI) document these migrations each year at established locations called hawkwatches. This overview map, produced by the Raptor Population Index, displays the hawkwatches located throughout the Americas (real-time count […]

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Tracking the First Breeding Pair of Secretarybirds: What We’re Learning

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For a moment, it seemed like another setback for Secretarybirds. Director of International Programs, Dr. Megan Murgatroyd, watched the map as a female Secretarybird she tagged with a transmitter moved further and further away from her nest. “I thought she had abandoned the nest,” Meg shared.  Over the following days, her movements revealed an unexpected

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Conservation in a Changing Climate: Final Report from the 2024 GRRCG Recipients

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I think it’s safe to say that the last 18 months have been a whirlwind for most of us, but especially the 2024 recipients of the Global Raptor Grant (GRRCG). This cohort of grantees worked diligently to better understand some of the world’s most at-risk raptors in the face of political turmoil and rampant inflation,

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Final Report from the 2023 Global Raptor Research and Conservation Grant Awardees

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Endings are hard. Our 2023 Global Raptor Grant awardees have wrapped up their projects and are ready to share with you all they have accomplished over the last year and a half. Thanks to support from Kaddas Enterprises, these awardees focused on studying and conserving some of the most at-risk raptor species around the world.

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