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2019 Memory Lane Countdown, #6: Falcon Carson Came Back!

December 27, 2019 RaptorResource

<img width="175" height="175" src="https://www.raptorresource.org/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/080519-Carson-175x175.jpg" class="alignleft wp-post-image" alt="August 5, 2019: Carson at Great Spirit Bluff" srcset="https://www.raptorresource.org/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/080519-Carson-175x175.jpg 175w, https://www.raptorresource.org/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/080519-Carson-150x150.jpg 150w, https://www.raptorresource.org/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/080519-Carson-400x400.jpg 400w, https://www.raptorresource.org/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/080519-Carson-85x85.jpg 85w" sizes="(max-width: 175px) 100vw, 175px" />

It was a tough year at Great Spirit Bluff. A great horned owl killed falcon Kira on June 9 and a blackfly swarm drove falcon Carson from the nest on June 11. Our camera operators quickly found his spunky screeing self in the brush below the nest. We verified he was alright and settled down to watch as Mom Michelle and Dad Newman dropped a veritable buffet of bird parts on his head and chased away the potential predators that

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Thank you!

December 4, 2019 RaptorResource

<img width="175" height="175" src="https://www.raptorresource.org/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/GivingDayThanks-175x175.jpg" class="alignleft wp-post-image" alt="#GivingTuesday 2019: Thank you!" srcset="https://www.raptorresource.org/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/GivingDayThanks-175x175.jpg 175w, https://www.raptorresource.org/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/GivingDayThanks-405x405.jpg 405w, https://www.raptorresource.org/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/GivingDayThanks-720x720.jpg 720w, https://www.raptorresource.org/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/GivingDayThanks-150x150.jpg 150w, https://www.raptorresource.org/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/GivingDayThanks-768x768.jpg 768w, https://www.raptorresource.org/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/GivingDayThanks-400x400.jpg 400w, https://www.raptorresource.org/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/GivingDayThanks-85x85.jpg 85w, https://www.raptorresource.org/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/GivingDayThanks.jpg 600w" sizes="(max-width: 175px) 100vw, 175px" />

Thank you so much for your support on #GivingTuesday! You donated $10,708 to support our work yesterday. This will go a long way towards buying equipment, upgrading power on the Flyway, and expanding our educational program. From the very bottom of our hearts, thank you, thank you, thank you. We couldn’t do it without you!

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A Reflection and a Thanksgiving

November 27, 2019 RaptorResource

<img width="175" height="175" src="https://www.raptorresource.org/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/112719-john-175x175.jpg" class="alignleft wp-post-image" alt="John on rappel at GSB" srcset="https://www.raptorresource.org/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/112719-john-175x175.jpg 175w, https://www.raptorresource.org/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/112719-john-150x150.jpg 150w, https://www.raptorresource.org/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/112719-john-400x400.jpg 400w, https://www.raptorresource.org/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/112719-john-85x85.jpg 85w" sizes="(max-width: 175px) 100vw, 175px" />

A Thanksgiving message from the Raptor Resource Project. A lot has changed since I wrote this in 2016, but we remain true to our core mission and I am even more thankful today for RRP and our volunteers and supporters than I was in 2016. I found myself in an unusually reflective mood earlier this week. November 23rd was Bob Anderson’s birthday. It seemed like a good time to take stock of where the Raptor Resource Project has been, where

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Birds and Nest-Building

October 29, 2019 RaptorResource

<img width="175" height="175" src="https://www.raptorresource.org/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/800px-Turdus_merula_Nesting-175x175.jpg" class="alignleft wp-post-image" alt="A blackbird's cup nest" srcset="https://www.raptorresource.org/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/800px-Turdus_merula_Nesting-175x175.jpg 175w, https://www.raptorresource.org/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/800px-Turdus_merula_Nesting-150x150.jpg 150w, https://www.raptorresource.org/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/800px-Turdus_merula_Nesting-400x400.jpg 400w, https://www.raptorresource.org/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/800px-Turdus_merula_Nesting-85x85.jpg 85w" sizes="(max-width: 175px) 100vw, 175px" />

When I say ‘bird’s nest’, you know the type of nest I’m talking about, right? It could be a bald eagle’s stick platform high up in the branches of a tree. Or perhaps a peregrine falcon’s scrape in dirt, sand, or gravel on a shallow cliff ledge. Or maybe the burrows that bank swallows and belted kingfishers excavate in dirt, the cavity nests that woodpeckers excavate in dead wood, or the woven nests that orioles and weavers build. When I

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On Migration

October 18, 2019 RaptorResource

<img width="175" height="175" src="https://www.raptorresource.org/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/101819-3-175x175.jpg" class="alignleft wp-post-image" alt="September 2019: Migrating Birds on the Mississippi Flyway" srcset="https://www.raptorresource.org/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/101819-3-175x175.jpg 175w, https://www.raptorresource.org/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/101819-3-150x150.jpg 150w, https://www.raptorresource.org/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/101819-3-400x400.jpg 400w, https://www.raptorresource.org/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/101819-3-85x85.jpg 85w" sizes="(max-width: 175px) 100vw, 175px" />

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 spring or fall, the great pivot points of the year, then the continents are swarming with billions of traveling birds… – Living on the Wind: Across the Hemisphere with Migratory Birds We get a lot of questions about migration. Do the Decorah eagles migrate? Do our Peregrine falcons migrate? Where do they go when they

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