We said goodbye to our most senior member of the HawkWatch International (HWI) team this past weekend. Calurus, our Red-tailed Hawk Raptor Ambassador, was euthanized on March 8th, 2025, due to complications from congestive heart failure, just a few weeks shy of what we believe would have been, at minimum, his 35th birthday. “We strive […]
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When you can count 600,000+ raptors in a single season, there’s no more fitting way to describe the experience than to say that it rocks. Over 100 youth in the Coastal Bend learned just how much “Hazel rocks” last month during the annual Celebration of Flight festival in Corpus Christi, Texas. With support from the
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Each year, we’re reminded of just how much work to do to conserve raptors and our shared environment. After carefully reviewing over 30 proposals studying 24 species, HawkWatch International (HWI) has selected four researchers as recipients of the 2024 Global Raptor Research and Conservation Grant (GRRCG) for their efforts to conserve at-risk species. This year’s
TUBAC, ARIZONA—HawkWatch International is excited to announce it will be partnering with the Tubac Nature Center to run the Tubac HawkWatch beginning February 15, 2024. Tubac will be the eighth location in HawkWatch International’s network of migration monitoring sites and will become the second spring site in the current network. The site is unique in
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September 7, 2023—Raptor biologists had an unexpectedly busy day last week when 28,103 Mississippi Kites migrated past the Corpus Christi HawkWatch. In total, the biologists have now counted over 57,000 of the species—over 3x as many as are typically seen at the site each fall. Crew member Daniel Horton, who is working his 6th season
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