Last year, we joined the Raptor Conservation Internship with HawkWatch International, which is an incredible opportunity for early career biologists. Not only did we get the opportunity to do hands-on fieldwork, but we also conducted our own research using a decade’s worth of data collected by the program. Each year since 2014, the CARES (Cavity […]

This year’s field season for our Raptor Conservation Interns has already started off with a bang. Our team has seen several nests in this early season, including a Northern Saw-whet Owl with eight eggs! It has been a few years since we’ve monitored a Saw-whet nest as part of our Cavity Adopting Raptor Ecology Studies

When creating merchandise for a scientific organization, it is sometimes challenging to mesh accuracy and artistic creativity together. We want to create pieces for you that showcase raptors respectfully as well as capture their beauty. We think that Becca Hallstedt has done just that with our latest collaboration. From the first draft we received of

For me tilted wings framed by my window forebears emerging springSome find nodding daffodils the deliverer of winter’s demiseOthers the green crocus blades as prognosticators of season change These sleeping residents awaked from their cold beds with Vernal’s kiss,Flowering from successes of springs pastThrusting from energy of colorful ancestors they are icons of stability But