This season we have added 32 new transmitters to our tracking effort! This includes 25 from the desert southwest (see above), one dark morph in New York(!), and six birds in Washington (see below), all to represent our biggest seasonal transmitter effort yet! Our focus this season was primarily on bolstering our sampling of migratoryContinue reading “32 individuals make up the new cohort of transmitters for 2025!”
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A white Red-tailed Hawk from Oklahoma
Some incredible luck struck on a recent trip to Oklahoma (more on the trip soon!) that included some core project folks as well as a few keen Cornell University undergraduate students. While on the trail to trap harlani and intergrade types, Irby Lovette and undergrad Mei Rao came across a striking all white Red-tailed Hawk.Continue reading “A white Red-tailed Hawk from Oklahoma”
More birds added to our project thanks to the Mackinac Straits Raptor Watch
Bryce recently spent a week at the Mackinac Straits Raptor Watch in Mackinaw City, Michigan, where he and Nick Alioto deployed eleven units on migrant Red-tailed Hawks. Nick will be conducting a movement ecology study focused on migrants in the great lakes region, and we’re excited to see what insights he gains from these taggedContinue reading “More birds added to our project thanks to the Mackinac Straits Raptor Watch”
Meet Ahsoka – a light-morph harlani carrying a transmitter in Kansas
Meet Ahsoka, an after fourth-cycle harlani that wears the color band blue – 3Z! Luke added this excellent light harlani to our growing group of birds carrying transmitters. We first found this individual last year on its wintering territory just outside of Lawrence, Kansas. We checked regularly during our trapping efforts last winter to seeContinue reading “Meet Ahsoka – a light-morph harlani carrying a transmitter in Kansas”
Introducing…
… a research collaboration that focuses on the study of Buteo jamaicensis, a common and widespread raptor of North and Central America. The goals of this collaboration are to fill knowledge gaps in subspecies identification and distribution, movement ecology, and an almost untouched subject in this species, genomics. Learn more about our research objectives onContinue reading “Introducing…”
Red-tailed Hawk Project 