Raptor Resource Project Blog

We are starting to see courtship at a number of peregrine nests. Those of you who watched at last year might remember that the falcons wer...

We are sorry to announce that the Valmont Great Horned Owl nest in Colorado has most likely failed. Snowflake began laying eggs on Februa...

It appears the first barn owl egg have hatched at Eaglecrest this morning! Tess laid 7 eggs between 2/19 and 3/04. Assuming all of them hat...

We are getting a lot of questions about the new nest. Here are a few answers. Where is the new nest?  The new nest is still within the ea...

Alliant Energy has begin installing the eagle protection perches in Decorah. The first three went up on the lines and poles to the southw...

We are sometimes asked why we band birds. Banding birds provides an invaluable way to study their life histories and chart changes in bird p...

The barn owls at Eaglecrest laid their first egg on 2/19/13. They are nesting in a hole in the tree just below the nest tray that the geese ...

Check out the video:  http://youtu.be/8hT_Cg551_0 The Canada Geese laid their first egg at Eaglecrest on February 19th between 5:05pm an...

It appears that the Decorah eagles have chosen the new nest they started last fall for this year’s nesting season. If they were going to use...

Falcon 72/N, a 2011 hatch from the Allen S. King plant . I'll talk more about the band colors in our next installment We sometimes...

Mom and Dad on February 5th We are getting this question on a very regular basis and we still don't have an answer. Initially, they ...

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.  ...