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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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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If you are a frequent reader of our blogs, you likely know that eagles around the world face many challenges and human-caused threats. We’ve similarly shared concerning news about the status of Golden Eagles in the western U.S., as well as some of the tools we have been researching to benefit this species. In this blog, we’ll
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In an attempt to produce more energy while minimising greenhouse gas emissions, wind turbines are becoming a common sight across the world. We desperately need to see the production of more sustainable energy, but we also need to face the issues that have come with wind power. Our main concern is that wind turbines are
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