Notes from the Field

Six Months of Success: Checking in on 2023’s Global Raptor Grant Recipients

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With support from sponsor Kaddas Enterprises, recipients of the 2023 Global Raptor Research & Conservation Grant have spent the last six months working to conserve critical raptor species around the world. From conducting fieldwork to developing outreach materials, each team has made significant progress on their projects focusing on vulnerable and endangered species. Lungten, Palla’s […]

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HawkWatch Takes the Night Shift: Field Surveys of the Mexican Spotted Owl

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When we picture Spotted Owls, we often imagine a silent and enigmatic figure amidst the backdrop of a dense and shadowy old-growth forest. However, unlike the California Spotted Owl and the Northern Spotted Owl, the Mexican Spotted Owl (Strix occidentalis lucida) inhabits the four corners region of the United States. Utah’s Spotted Owls seek refuge

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A Snowy Spring: Gunsight HawkWatch Mid-season Update

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We are halfway through our spring migration count at Gunsight Mountain HawkWatch! Our counters, Arthur and Cory, sent over an update for you on how this season’s count is coming along—and spoiler alert—the snow never stops! Despite the challenging weather, our counters report some surprises that keep hawkwatching interesting. We are amidst an Alaskan winter

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Why Maintaining Nest Boxes is Important

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Each year, our team at HawkWatch International, including our volunteer community scientists, monitors around 100 pairs of nesting kestrels that use boxes in our network of 500+ in northern Utah, Moscow/Pullman area, and Tucson, Arizona. This effort is part of an ongoing long-term demographic study that includes data from 800+ nesting attempts and over 2,600

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In Pursuit of Australia’s Red Goshawk

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Back in June 2017, a keen, early-career raptor researcher from Australia reached out to HWI with interest in volunteering on the migration network. At the time, Chris MacColl worked as a threatened species biologist for Rio Tinto in Weipa, Queensland, Australia, and hoped to visit the USA in late fall to gain some hands-on raptor experience. This

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