Tag: raptor conservation
November Raptor: Red-tailed Hawk
Winter is here and with it comes excellent opportunities to view an abundance of raptors looking to survive it's harsh months. Winter can be a tough time for raptors. With a limited food supply and sometimes frigid temperatures, many first ...
October Raptor – Golden Eagle
In todays world, a variety of human related factors threaten Golden Eagle (Aquila chrysaetos) populations. Native habitat/prey loss, wind energy development, electrocution, and lead poisoning all pose threats to the Golden Eagle. This Golden Eagle, in it's first year of ...
September Raptor – Northern Harrier
Northern Harriers (Circus cyaneus) are amazing raptors. A cross between diurnal raptor and owl (look at that facial disc!), these low-flying birds cruise hillsides, open country, wetlands, and agricultural areas looking for birds and small mammals to pounce on. Harriers ...
EOC 001: Gyrfalcons on the Seward Peninsula and Wintering Raptors in the Snake River Valley of Idaho with Raptor Biologist Neil Paprocki
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 ...
August Raptor – Gyrfalcon
*** 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 ...
Fledgling Gyrfalcons
*** 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 ...
July Raptor – Rough-legged Hawk
These roughly 30-day old Rough-legged Hawk nestlings stand stoically in the stick nest constructed by their dutiful parents. They would be due to fledge from this cliff around 36 to 45 days of age. I observed this particular nest from ...
June Raptor – Peregrine Falcon
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 ...
Growth of Young Gyrfalcon Nestlings
*** 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) ...
