Monthly Archives: December 2020

December 20, 2020: Nestflix from Decorah North and the Flyway!

December 10, 2020: DNF and Mr. North

We have your Friday Night Nestflix! Kick back with your favorite drinks and snacks while you spend some time with us and Decorah North and the Mississippi Flyway. I liked all of these videos, but I especially enjoyed stick tango, DNF’s lumberjill adventures, the beautiful juvenile eagle on the Flyway, and magnificent close-ups of a sandhill crane. Thanks to our camera operators and videomakers for finding and sharing such magnificent moments, and to you for watching, learning, and especially for

Who was that eagle with a transmitter?

December 8, 2020: Who is that eagle with a transmitter?

Our eagle-eyed camera operators and fans spotted a transmitter on an eagle we saw near hatchery rock yesterday morning! Could it be one of ours? It wasn’t close enough to see a band or transmitter number, but here is what we know. The eagle we saw was 4-1/2 years old or older. While we initially thought it was a full adult, Brett has trapped 4-1/2 year-olds with yellow beaks and white heads. If it was one of our eaglets, it

Videos from the North Nest!

December 7, 2020: DNF at the North Nest

What’s going on at the North Nest? While we’re busy puzzling out Decorah, the North Eagles are working on their treetop palace! This particular nest has room enough for multiple families of mice and birds, but that isn’t deterred DNF and Mr. North from adding more space for next year’s clutch of eaglets. I hope you like these videos as much as we did, and thanks as always to our dedicated camera operators and video makers for finding and sharing

Why are you shining a light on the animals?

The electromagnetic spectrum

I originally posted this blog in 2012. You’re asking about IR light and the North Nest, so I thought I would repost it here.  We are starting to get questions about the night-time illumination of our nests, so I wanted to write about visible light, invisible ‘light’, and our IR illuminators. What we see – the world of visible light – is just a tiny fraction of all the types of light that exist. Infrared light, gamma rays, X-rays, ultraviolet

What’s going on in Decorah?

What's going on in Decorah?

You are sharing your comments and concerns about the decline in the amount of time that Mom and DM2 are spending on the N2B nest. We have seen Mom and DM2 on cam and in person at the hatchery in the past week, so why aren’t they as active in the nest area? We don’t know. As time passes, we will get an answer, but at this time all we can do is monitor their movements and let them show

D27 meets D36!

November 23, 2020: D27 and D36 meet southeast of Postville

Do eagle siblings ever disperse together? Although our eaglet siblings all appear to be best friends post-fledge, D24, D25, D35, and D36 all dispersed separately. However, half-siblings D27 and D36 spent a few days in the same area on November 23, 24, and 25 this year. Thanks so much for the postcards, eaglets! D36, D27, D24, and D1 all seem to like the Turkey Valley watershed a little south and west of Postville.  It looks like eagle paradise: plenty of

#GivingTuesday: 2020 Budget

2020 Newsletter: RRP Director John Howe

To help kick-off Giving Tuesday on Tuesday, December 1, we wanted to talk about what we did this year. Here are the things that your donations got done. Please donate to the Raptor Resource Project to help us continue our work in 2021 and beyond! New Projects Despite the disruption of Covid-19, we expanded our online educational offerings, partnered with Eagle Valley, the Kohler Foundation, the Guttenberg Chamber of Commerce, and the US Fish and Wildlife Service on a new

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