Raptor Resource Project Blog

What does the Raptor Resource Project do? We are a 501c3 that specializes in the preservation of falcons, eagles, ospreys, hawks, and owls. ...

2014, Egg #2. Temp with windchill: -40F. Do bald eagles delay incubation? It wasn't an a question we've thought about much, sinc...

We had an intruder at the Decorah North Nest on March 13th. While Dad was in the nest incubating the pair's single egg, a roughly four-y...

I attended the Minnesota DNR's non-toxic shot informational meeting last week and heard testimony supporting and opposing the DNR's ...

We're getting some concerned questions about the strength of the trees that N2B and especially the Decorah North Nest are sitting in. Th...

Is N2B big enough? This is probably the number one question we've fielded this week. A lot of people have expressed concerns that N2B i...

Congratulations to the Fort St. Vrain bald eagles on their first egg of 2016! The egg was laid last night around 9:22pm Mountain Time. Thi...

Sherri Elliott got some great vocals and video this morning at Ustream! After a few beaky 'kisses', Mom and Dad were heard copulat...

How do we learn to become human? From fellow humans, of course! We are raised by humans, fed and cared for by humans, and taught language b...

I just finished the book Birdsong  by Don Stap, a book which seeks to answer the question  Why do birds sing and what do their songs mean?  ...

Dr.Robert Bullard. By Dave Brenner via Wikimedia Commons Martin Luther King Day got me thinking about African-American people in conserv...

It's only a little over a month before the Decorah Eagles usually start laying eggs, so it seems like a good time to blog about some tec...

This blog was inspired by the paper 'The design and function of birds' nests', Ecology and Evolution 2014; 4(20): 3909–3928. It ...