The American Kestrel North America's smallest falcon species, the American Kestrel is a unique and fascinating animal. It is our most colorful raptor, and also one of the few raptors that is sexually dimorphic. Kestrel populations have been on the ...

Episode Summary: Our guest on today's show is the Senior Scientist for HawkWatch International, a Utah-based non-profit that has been studying raptor migration for almost three decades. Recently, Dave has been focusing much of his time on one of the ...

Episode Summary: Today on the show we're talking with the Director of the American Kestrel Partnership, Chris McClure. This collaborative project was initiated by the Peregrine Fund in 2012, and has been working to bring together both researchers and citizen ...

In many ways Merlins (Falco columbarius) are like miniature versions of Peregrine Falcons: aggressive aerial predators often taking prey larger than themselves. Merlins are just slightly larger than the smallest North American falcon, the American Kestrel. Based on migration and wintering ...

Episode Summary: In this, the very first episode of the Eyes on Conservation Podcast, we talk with Wild Lens co-founder and Raptor Biologist Neil Paprocki. Neil helped found Wild Lens back in 2011 and served as the producer/director of the ...

*** Wild Lens Scientific Director Neil Paprocki worked during the 2014 summer in Nome, Alaska on The Peregrine Fund’s Gyrfalcon Conservation Project with Boise State University graduate student Bryce Robinson. You can learn more about this project via previous Wild ...

*** Wild Lens Scientific Director Neil Paprocki is currently in Nome, Alaska working on The Peregrine Fund’s Gyrfalcon Conservation Project with Boise State University graduate student Bryce Robinson. You can read more about this project on previous Wild Lens blog ...

Another month, another raptor: the Peregrine Falcon, Falco peregrinus. We've been learning a lot about Gyrfalcons recently because of my work with the Gyrfalcon Conservation Project, but there are many other raptor species on the Seward Peninsula of Alaska. Golden ...

*** I am currently in Nome, Alaska working on The Peregrine Fund's Gyrfalcon Conservation Project with Boise State University graduate student Bryce Robinson. You can read more about this project on previous Wild Lens blog entries *** Gyrfalcon (Falco rusticolus) ...