Raptor Resource Project Blog

From our friends at Minnesota Power. Thanks for sharing! Amy and Matt The three chicks at Hibbard Renewable Energy Center now have nam...

Yesterday at about 10:45, Decorah fledgling EWOT was electrocuted on a high voltage power line roughly ½ mile from the mulch pile that both...

For the last couple of days, the most commonly asked question on facebook has been something along the lines of "Why are you calling D1...

Last week we asked Decorah watchers for their questions about the Decorah fledging that went to SOAR. Thanks to Kay and Dr. Dirks for answer...

We've confirmed a fledgling eagle without a transmitter a little over one mile from the nest. While we can't know for sure, we are q...

We're getting a lot of questions about how the owl could have gotten past Mom and Dad in Eagle Valley. Are Mom and Dad bad parents? Unob...

This video shows Dad bringing a freshly killed rabbit to the nest. After pausing in a tree, he circles over a field before landing in the...

We’ve had several questions and comments about Mom’s behavior lately. Why is Mom mad at Dad? Why is Mom so demanding? Why is Mom so mean? ...

April 12, 2014 April 22, 2014 The Decorah eaglets are 20, 19, and 15 days old respectively. What’s happened since...

Two of our little eaglets are just over one week old! What happened in their first week of life? They doubled in size and grew talle...

We have a turkey vulture mystery! As Eaglewhisperer18 recorded yesterday, the turkey vultures returned to their loft in Missouri. TV enthus...

Some questions from eagle watchers: What will happen in the first week? Like humans and other animals, growing nestlings have development...

The Big Jump happened at Eaglecrest on April 1 at 4:42PM PDT, although it didn't go quite as expected. We believe that Wilma laid seven ...

Presenting D18! The first bald eagle egg in Decorah hatched today at 9:22AM CDT, bringing the total number of young produced on this terri...

The first bald eagle egg hatched at Fort St. Vrain on Tuesday, April 1. Watcher Eaglewhisperer18 caught pip at at 11:50PM CT on March 31, ...

We have three bald eagle eggs at Fort St. Vrain, and the camera is back! The eggs were laid as follows: Egg #1: February 21 Egg #2: Febru...

We've had a lot of people ask when the eggs will start hatching in Decorah. Mom laid the eggs as follows: Egg #1:02/23/2014 @ 4:55pm...

The goose and the hawk. Hawks drive the intruder from their nest. In the last blog, I speculated that Wilma's nest intruder could ha...

Why did another Canada goose sit on Wilma’s eggs for 27 minutes? Why didn’t Wilma’s mate Fred help remove the invading goose? We’re getting ...

Three Canada geese at Eaglecrest are currently sitting on eggs. "Wilma", in the home tree, has laid seven eggs to date. She star...