Raptor Resource Project Blog

With firearm deer hunting season getting ready to start in many places in the midwest, it seemed like a good time to remind people to hunt l...

The last time we blogged about prey remains from Xcel Energy's Fort St. Vrain bald eagle nest, we talked about mammals. This time, we...

At whatever moment you read these words, day or night, there are birds aloft in the skies of the Western Hemisphere, migrating. If it is spr...

So what's on the menu at Fort St. Vrain? While we were up in the nest, I decided to collect prey remains. We don't have the necessar...

Back in late August, John and I traveled to Platteville, Colorado, to work with Xcel Energy employees Bill Heston, Tina Lopez, and Naresh Da...

Fitting D27's Transmitter It is early August and I have one satellite transmitter (or PTT) yet to deploy on a young eagle. Dave and ...

Dad brings in the two-for-one suckerfish special! It's been a bountiful season for The North's in the quantity of prey hauled h...

We are getting a lot of questions about the perch design at Great Spirit Bluff. Are falcons jumping because the perches are poorly designed?...

As watchers of Great Spirit Bluff know, we lost two falcons to black flies/buffalo gnats. The young falcons died from blood loss and a blood...

Peregrine falcon, Decorah North Nest A sharp-eyed camera operator spotted an unbanded adult peregrine falcon at the Decorah North Nest t...

Top to bottom: Decorah N2B, Decorah North, Xcel Fort St. Vrain Most of our eaglets are in their fourth week of life: 26, 25, and 22 da...

It is April 10 as I write this, and our eaglets are growing rapidly! In Decorah, D26 is 10 days old, D27 is 9 days old and D28 is 6 days o...

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