Raptor Resource Project Blog

You've found a baby bird. Does it need help? What should you do? The Ustream Decorah Eagle mods made me aware of a flowchart to help ans...

While creating owl highlights this morning for our Eaglecrest site, I came across some very close-up footage of a fledgling owl's f...

The herons return. Thanks to Nora for the cap Two years ago today, Raptor Resource Project Board President Rob MacIntyre suffered cardi...

In addition to being silent flyers, owls are remarkably cryptic. This photo shows a barn owl, possibly mother Tess, perched just outside t...

The barn owls began fledge at Eaglecrest on 5/19/13, when the first barn owl decided it was time to leap from the nest. We wondered how fled...

While we are perhaps best known for our work with web cams, the Raptor Resource Project was incorporated as a 501c3 in the late 1980s to hel...

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...