Tag Archives: Banding Station

Meet Intern Owen!

Intern Owen and a Red-tailed Hawk

Meet Owen, an intern from U.W. Platteville! He’s studying Biology with an emphasis in Zoology and Environmental Conservation. His favorite experience so far was seeing the first Golden Eagle of the year pass through the station yesterday. He’s hoping to continue to get more field experience and work on his bird ID. Thank you so much for supporting the Raptor Resource Project. Your donations make this program possible!

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Meet Peter!

RRP Intern Peter with a sharp-shinned hawk

Meet Peter! He’s an intern studying Ecological Restoration at the University of Wisconsin-Platteville. So far, he’s learned how to properly trap and handle birds and has strengthened his bird identification. Going into the last half of his internship, Peter’s hoping to gain more knowledge on identifying birds and learn more about how they interact with their environment during certain times of the year. If you’d like to learn more about our banding station, follow this link: https://www.raptorresource.org/2024/10/21/program-spotlight-luther-college-banding-station/.

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Meet Beau!

InternBeau

Meet Beau, one of our interns from U.W. Platteville! He’s majoring in environmental science and conservation while he gets a lesson in hands-on conservation biology from the Raptor Resource Project. So far, Beau says he’s received the opportunity of a lifetime: “Being able to be handle these raptors and get a sense of their beauty leaves me speechless. This internship has been a huge help in gaining knowledge on how to identify these birds. By the end I would love

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Program Spotlight: Luther College Banding Station

Dave Kester, station master at our Decorah hawk banding station, teaches a student intern how to safely handle a juvenile Red-tailed Hawk. Correct handling of a bird ensures that neither the hawk nor the handler gets hurt!

The awe never really goes away,” says Mary McTeague ’22. “Whenever I handle a hawk, I’m struck by both their beauty and their strength.” Brynn Olsen ’23, an environmental studies major, agrees. “You’re holding a wild raptor—it never gets old.” Luther College students like Olsen work with the Raptor Resource Project to band migrating raptors, growing our body of knowledge about how these birds live and move in a changing world. McTeagueand Olsen are two of six Luther interns employed

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2022 RRP Annual Report

Peregrine Falcon at Bay State Milling in Winona, MN 2022

Curious about what we do beyond our Bald Eagle nests? Read about falcon monitoring and banding, our autumn banding stations, and our camera projects in our annual report: https://www.raptorresource.org/raptorresource/pdf/2022RRPBandingReport.pdf. As John says: “Our future leaders in raptor conservation surround us. Each class of students we introduce to life in an eagle nest or the beauty of a buteo moves us along in our goal of engaging and developing our future conservationists. Whether it is watching the eagles or holding and

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