We’ve reached the midway point of the spring count! Lucky for us Matt and Arthur have sent over this update letting you know how this season has gone and what is still yet to come. Gunsight HawkWatch specializes in species that are scarcely seen elsewhere in North America in such numbers, including Golden Eagles, the […]
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How long have you been volunteering with HawkWatch International? This will be our 6th year! How did you get started volunteering with HWI? I was looking for volunteer opportunities I could do with my son. When we saw that we could monitor nest boxes for the smallest falcons in North America, we knew this would
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How long have you been volunteering with HawkWatch International? I started training as a docent in the fall of 2015. How did you get started volunteering with HWI? HawkWatch International volunteers were with the Raptor Ambassadors outside of my place of employment at the time. I was enamored with the raptors and inquired about how
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How long have you been volunteering with HWI? We became docents in October of 2021. How did you get started volunteering with HWI? I saw a post on Facebook by Education and Outreach Director Melissa Halvorsen, who is a former colleague from Living Planet Aquarium, about HWI needing docents. My daughter Emily and I knew
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Our Raptor Ambassador Calurus might just be the oldest known Red-tailed Hawk. Calurus was brought to a rehabber in 1992 after getting tangled in a barbed wire fence and suffering an injury to his left-wing. The extent of the injury required a partial amputation that removed some of his flight feathers. Calurus came to the
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