Author Archives: Neil Paprocki

A 19-year-old recaptured Red-tailed Hawk has been fitted with a GPS transmitter by The Red-tailed Hawk Project, creating an exceptional opportunity to track the movements of a long-surviving individual! Meet ‘Maxine”, originally banded as a juvenile on September 25, 2007 by volunteers at the HawkWatch International Chelan Ridge raptor migration site in Washington state. Red-tailedContinue reading “Still Soaring at 19: Tracking a Red-tailed Hawk’s Golden Years”

Our transmitter efforts in 2025 focused primarily on expanding our knowledge of movement and plumage variation among Red-tailed Hawks in western North America. Our sampling predominately occurred during winter throughout the desert southwest of California, Arizona, and New Mexico and resulted in breeding origins from British Columbia, Washington, Oregon, Idaho, Montana, Wyoming, and a fewContinue reading “Movement summary from our 2025 transmitters!”