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Conservation. Education. Research! The Raptor Resource Project is holding its first egg fundraiser today. While people are always welcome to donate, we hold fundraisers around important events in the lives of the birds we watch. With a first egg at Decorah North, HD and HM getting busy, Newman back at Great Spirit Bluff, two eagle tracking projects, ice breaking up on the Flyway, and Canada Geese checking out N2B, we have a lot of things going on, a lot to celebrate, and a lot of work to do! You
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Conservation. Education. Research! The Raptor Resource Project is holding its first egg fundraiser today. While people are always welcome to donate, we hold fundraisers around important events in the lives of the birds we watch. With a first egg at Decorah North, HD and HM getting busy, Newman back at Great Spirit Bluff, two eagle tracking projects, ice breaking up on the Flyway, and Canada Geese checking out N2B, we have a lot of things going on, a lot to celebrate, and a lot of work to do! You
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Happy Giving Tuesday! The Raptor Resource Project needs your support to carry on our mission of conservation, education, and research! You can donate using the button below or follow this link: https://www.raptorresource.org/support-the-raptor-resource-project/make-a-donation/ to donate via Paypal, Venmo, or Network For Good.. Our wonderful partner explore.org is matching donations up to a total of $5000, which means your donation will be doubled today! Thank you so much for your support: for wa
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Happy Giving Tuesday! The Raptor Resource Project needs your support to carry on our mission of conservation, education, and research! You can donate using the button below or follow this link: https://www.raptorresource.org/support-the-raptor-resource-project/make-a-donation/ to donate via Paypal, Venmo, or Network For Good.. Our wonderful partner explore.org is matching donations up to a total of $5000, which means your donation will be doubled today! Thank you so much for your support: for wa
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Did you see? On July 30, we watched an adult Bald Eagle swim with a fish in his talons. He churned his feet, paddled his powerful wings, and stroked steadily across the deep, fast-moving channel as the current carried him downstream. After several minutes, he reached a resting spot: a shoal where he could finally stand. He shook the water from his wings and paused to recover, but he couldn’t take off with the fish. After a short rest, he left it behind and flew off empty-taloned. But as we know,
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Did you see? On July 30, we watched an adult Bald Eagle swim with a fish in his talons. He churned his feet, paddled his powerful wings, and stroked steadily across the deep, fast-moving channel as the current carried him downstream. After several minutes, he reached a resting spot: a shoal where he could finally stand. He shook the water from his wings and paused to recover, but he couldn’t take off with the fish. After a short rest, he left it behind and flew off empty-taloned. But as we know,
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March 31, 2020: DNF feeds DN11 | Raptor Resource Project
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The American Kestrel cam breeding season might seem to go by in the blink of an eye, but their time in the nest box is an action-packed frenzy of feathered fun! Watch the top moments from 2021, when a pair of North America's smallest falcons worked around the clock to raise five fledglings in Prairie Du Chien, Wisconsin. Thanks to out partners at the Raptor Resource Project for helping us share the lives of these birds of prey with the world! | Bird Cams
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The American Kestrel cam breeding season might seem to go by in the blink of an eye, but their time in the nest box is an action-packed frenzy of feathered fun! Watch the top moments from 2021, when a pair of North America's smallest falcons worked around the clock to raise five fledglings in Prairie Du Chien, Wisconsin. Thanks to out partners at the Raptor Resource Project for helping us share the lives of these birds of prey with the world! | Bird Cams
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The Decorah and Decorah North cams will shut down for maintenance at 5:00 PM CDT on Saturday, August 29. The chat mods for both cams will be holding special celebratory goodbye chats at our website from 3 to 5pm. Come join us and relive your favorite moments at each nest! Many of you told us that our nests were a place of refuge and calm for you this year. We hope you know that you gave us strength, courage, and determination in the face of Covid-19 and so many other challenges. Thank you for wa
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We're into our busy season! We'll do our best to keep posting, but we'll be doing it in between banding peregrine falcons and keeping track of all our nests. Having said that, we were thrilled to see TE3 beginning to take its first unsteady steps. It's been using its wings as props, but it won't be long until its steps are steady and confident. Watch out below, everyone! - and look for the eaglet to up its self-feeding game. It's wonderful to see TE3 growing so strong and healthy! | Raptor Resou
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Make way for goslings! The goslings in N1 are hatching and we’re getting a lot of questions about the gosling Leap of Faith, which will probably happen tomorrow or Tuesday. Will the goslings jump? How will they survive? Are they really ready to leave the nest? Read on for the answers to your questions and watch live here: https://www.raptorresource.org/birdcams/decorah-goose-cam/. Will the goslings really jump? They will! Watch for The Leap of Faith to happen roughly 24 to 48 hours after hatch.
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DN17 and DN18 turned three and two days old today! The eaglets aren't ready wander the nest just yet, but it was fun to see them popping their little periscopes up from beneath DNF and Mr. North's feathery coverlets. Did the dynamic duo get enough to eat? Our camera operators recorded seventeen feedings from DNF and five from Mr. North. DN17 ate 14 times and DN18 ate 12. I'm surprised they could left their heads for more food by the end of the day! Our Facebook video shows a relatively peaceful
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A tense moment at the North Nest! | Raptor Resource Project
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Could HD or HM be one of Mom and Dad's offspring? Mom and Dad's oldest eaglet turned 14 years old this spring. Since bald eagles tend to nest in the region they were born, it's possible that at least one of them was produced by Dad and OM, or Dad and Mom. But male and female eagles have slightly different nesting dispersal patterns, which makes male HD the more likely offspring choice. Natal dispersal in birds is defined as the movement between hatching location and first breeding or potential b
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The Flyway is back! A volunteer with a hovercraft took John out to cam island today and we are online! Hoping to see some Superb Owls on Superb Owl Sunday! I don't have any videos from this year since we just got back up and running, but here's a Flyway Blast From The Past! If you aren't familiar with our Flyway cam, check it out here: https://www.raptorresource.org/birdcams/flyway-cam/ | Raptor Resource Project
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Here are some highlights from yesterday's goose jump! We arrived at the hatchery around 7am and set up camp under our canopy in rain and 37 degree temperatures. At around 11:10, Mama Goose stood up and jumped for the first time. Not long after she and Papa started calling to their goslings, the eagles at N1 flew over, stooping close enough to the nest to worry us and the geese! Mother Goose came right back and settled over her young until about 12:15, when she took what turned out to be her fina
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In 2016, Mr. North was a new father: uncertain, determined, and guided by instinct. Mrs. North, patient and steady, showed him the way. In 2019, DNF became a mother for the first time. She, too, drew on instinct, learning the rhythms of parenthood with Mr. North at her side. Seasons and storms have come and gone, shaping them into the experienced, unshakable parents they are today. Through snow and rain and heat and gloom of night, they shelter their eggs and hatchlings beneath them: undaunted,
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Love is in the nest! HD and HM copulated on N1 this morning! At just a little bit before 7:00AM, HM dropped into the nest and made it very clear she was feeling amorous - look at her swishing tail and looming position, and listen to her voice. I’m not an eagle, but even I know she’s interested! After a little beaking, he gets on top. I’m not really sure how to describe what happens next. I feel uncomfortable using human terms, but it’s hard not to think of terms like ‘afterglow’. I’ve seen a who
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We're getting a lot of messages about Trempealeau. Although we're going offline on August 15, we won’t begin on-site work until mid-September. But we need this time to prepare for important maintenance and/or upgrades at all our sites: Trempealeau, Decorah, Decorah North, Fort St. Vrain, Great Spirit Bluff, Castle Rock, and the Mississippi Flyway, plus several falcon sites that aren't online. It takes an incredible amount of work to maintain camera systems, computers, and nest sites, and we have
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A Great Horned Owl came into the Castle Rock Peregrine Falcon eyrie at about 8:45 PM on April 3, but Elsa was ready! After a quick altercation, it flew off and she settled back over her eggs. Owls have to eat too, and they've been part of Peregrine Falcon life for a very long time. Still, we were glad to see Elsa chase it away! Watch Castle Rock live here: https://www.raptorresource.org/birdcams/castle-rock-falcons/. Look for hatch on or around May 9. | Raptor Resource Project
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We'll have a full video round-up tomorrow, but in the meantime, enjoy Mr. North, DNF, and the coyote chorus! Sweet eagle dreams, everyone! | Raptor Resource Project
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Geese have started hatching in our N1 nest! Watch for the Leap of Faith tomorrow or Monday: https://www.raptorresource.org/birdcams/decorah-eagles/ and read more about it here: https://www.raptorresource.org/2024/04/13/your-questions-answered-the-goslings-and-the-leap-of-faith/. | Raptor Resource Project
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We've got your mega-movie raptor roll and some feeding observations! Still worried about DH2? As of yesterday, the little peaglet had been fed an incredible 84 times. HM did the most feedings (71 to HD's 13) while HD provided most of the meals (38 to HM's 2). As the first video shows, HM and DH2 have dialed feeding in! I also enjoyed the near miss with a PS (the hazards of being an eagle parent!), the lovely looks at DH2 on the 15th and 13th, and a peek at a grackle nesting inside the Decorah No
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The Norths appear to have accepted the nest we built for them - we saw them last night and early this morning! That makes us five for five: we rebuilt N2 in 2015 (Mom and Dad until 2018, Mom and DM2 until fall of 2020), DNN in 2018 (Mr. North and new mate DNF), Fort St. Vrain in 2020 (Ma and Pa FSV), N1 in 2021 (HM and HD), and DNN (again) this fall. If you'd like to know how we build a starter nest, we've got more here: https://www.raptorresource.org/2024/06/20/32297/, and if you'd like to see
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As we countdown to our maintenance shutdown on August 20, we're sharing some favorite things about the 2022 season. Two of my very favorite things were bald eaglets DN15 and DN16. DN15 and DN16 hatched on March 25 and March 27. We were enthralled as they grew from fluffy bobbleheads into sleek young predators and loved watching them reach important milestones: the first feeding, the first nestploration, bonking battles and food steals, wingercizing, stick play, self-feeding, pin feathers, standi
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What was going on with the geese this morning? A raccoon tried to get into the nest while both of them were there! This went a little better for the raccoon who investigated the eggs last week, before MG started full incubation: https://youtu.be/4QnHay1ajUo?si=QArQZVmF14IVnUiV and https://youtu.be/M9UbphJOjic?si=JNFzPJumJ-eVOwI1. But geese are large, formidable foes and the raccoon quickly backed down. How large are Canada Geese? Cornell tells us that they are 29.9-43.3 inches long (76-110 cm),
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We are over the moon about hatchling DH1! The little pip squeek shook its shellmet off at 4:10 this morning and HD arrived for his first shift at around 7:05 AM. I love the care that he takes getting into the nestbowl for his first-ever brooding shift. It's hard to believe that the tiny, helpless bit of fluff nestled under his feathers will grow up to become a ruler of the skies! DH1 is HD and HM's first hatchling and the 40th(!) eaglet hatched on this territory. Videos Welcome to the world, DH1
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I was putting together a serious post on eaglet development when our volunteers pointed out this poop shoot! DN17 began its artistic career with an excellent poopshoot yesterday! Eaglets shoot poop - instinctively? reflexively? - out of the nest bowl, but hatchlings lack the coordination or mass to really let it fly! As silly as it sounds, the ability to shoot poop out of, or almost out of, the nest marks an important developmental milestone. The little poopcassos are bigger, more coordinated, a
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What's going on at the Trempealeau eagle nest? Mr. T hasn't been seen since March 28. Prior to that, he and Mrs. T were exchanging incubation duties and he was acting like a normal eagle Dad. But we haven't seen him on the nest since his last shift and no one has reported or found him, live or dead, in the vicinity of the nest. The couple's first eaglet hatched on very late on April 2nd or very early on April 3rd and Mrs. T has been handling brooding and feeding remarkably well. We're monitoring
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Here's a better look at the pip! I love Mr. North's slow, careful movements and shimmy over his eggs. We get our first good view of the pip at about 12 seconds. So eggcited! To watch live, follow this link: https://www.raptorresource.org/birdcams/decorah-north-nest/. | Raptor Resource Project
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