Raptor Resource Project Blog

On April 24th, the turkey vultures in Missouri laid their first egg. The egg was captured by video-maker Priscillash and celebrated b...

First Meal The hatchling red-tailed hawk at Eaglecrest ate its first meal yesterday afternoon. Like bald eagles, red-tailed hawks eat an...

We have the first hatch for Stitch and Spot Sr. at Eaglecrest. Here's a video thanks to mochamama22. A few special moments from the vide...

Mabuhay is a two month-old Philippine Eagle produced at the Philippine Eagle Center near Davao City. He represents the second generation o...

Red-tailed hawk Stitch incubating eggs Looking out my window this morning, it seems unlikely that spring will ever arrive. But most of t...

Young falcons at Aggie's Bluff in 2012 According to the weather forecast, 4/16/13 was the only sunny day this week. Time for a pe...

Eaglecrest begins hatch watch for Red-tailed Hawk 'Stitch' and her eggs on April 17th. Stitch is a buteo, a genus of birds of prey...

Screen shot of the online banding info database Yesterday, facebook user Jeff Suggs asked if any of the falcons we watch have Australian...

Bob and falcon at Minnesota Power, Cohasset plant.  Several of the Peregrines we watch are nesting at utilities, including Xcel Energy...

Eaglecrest watchers might be familiar with Larry the Lizard, who periodically appears at the mouth of the Barn Owl nest, sunning and catc...

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...