Raptor Resource Project Blog

Our annual report is now available online. The report discusses 2012, talks about 2013, and contains plenty of information and observations ...

We are sorry to announce that Bob Anderson found D14 dead yesterday near Rockford, Iowa. D14, a 2012 hatch year bald eagle from Decorah, Iow...

Adult Eagles on Perch This post is about a group inspired by the electrocution of eaglet D12 in the summer of 2012. The Memorial for D12...

Mom and Dad are surprising us again.  We have noticed in recent weeks that they seem to be building an alternate nest in the neighborhood.  ...

At whatever moment you read these words, day or night, there are birds aloft in the skies of the Western Hemisphere, migrating. If it is spr...

Social Stream moved very quickly during the interview with Bob on Tuesday, September 25th! I wanted to publish his answers to a couple of th...

D1 is on the move! She's roughly 77 miles of her northernmost point right now, although she's a little north of the southernmost poi...

I've blogged a little about our pilot kestrel project [ click here for kestrel nestbox plans ]. We kicked it off last week when we insta...

John Carton got photographs of both recently fledged Turkey vultures! He writes:   "The turkey vultures are now able to fly very capab...

I'll start with a D14 report from Bob, who writes: "Mary and I set out to locate D14 on the Upper Iowa River down stream...

Some people enjoy watching the little Turkey vultures and others do not. The TVs behave quite differently from the eaglets: they spend hours...

John Carton, Chuck Hird, and a group of dedicated Turkey Vulture watchers have been sharing and compiling information about the Turkey vultu...

Michelle and Travis hatched two young falcons on 5/13/12, and the questions are already flying! I'll try to answer a few of the most com...

Bob took a turn operating the controls at the Bald eagle camera this morning. He was fascinated by Dad, who brought in three suckers in on...

The eaglets in Decorah are 27, 26, and 24 days old. Their darker second down has been in for days, and pinfeathers are beginning to show o...

Birds and Weather We've heard a lot of concerns about weather from nest watchers.  Following the nicest March anyone in the American Mid...