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Raptors can be elusive animals to work with, and even more so when researching Endangered and understudied species. Our awardees have been hard at work playing their own game of “Where’s Waldo” with their study species. Whether it be trying to observe owls in hard-to-access field sites or getting vultures to reveal their breeding locations, […]

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Mar 1 2023

Raptor Vocab 101: Plumage

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Welcome to the second installment in our series, teaching you how to speak the language of raptor biology. In this blog, we will focus on terms relating to plumage. These terms are not specific to raptors per se but are helpful to know when talking about identifying raptor species through their plumage. Before you continue

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Feb 23 2023

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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Feb 9 2023

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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Feb 4 2023

2023 Global Raptor Grant Recipients to Study Vulnerable Species in Three New Countries, Deepen Work on Two Key Species

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After careful review and support from our new sponsor, Kaddas Enterprises, we’re proud to announce that HawkWatch International (HWI) will support five researchers through our Global Raptor Research & Conservation Grant (GRRCG) in 2023. This year’s recipients will expand the grant’s reach, supporting raptor conservation in three new countries and on three new species as we

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