Raptor Resource Project Blog

While we wait to see what Mom and Dad Decorah are going to do, I thought I'd write a blog to celebrate owls. I collected this informatio...

We get this question a lot - on facebook, via email, in person, and in chat. Unfortunately, the answer is fairly complicated since we've...

By Kay Neumann, Executive Director SOAR – Saving Our Avian Resources Just like the other 13 snowy owls that SOAR worked with in 2012, SNO...

I'll give the short answer first: we don't know yet, and we probably won't know for another two to four weeks. Having said that,...

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...