Very informative, thank you!

I just took a video of a bird of prey yesterday and I’m wondering if someone can identify if it’s a hawk or eagle 🦅 how can I identify it is there someone who can do it for me?

Thank you!

Thank you! ❤

An excellent video. Why so few viewers. Most birders are not hawkwatchers and will never become hawkwatchers. Most birders do not understand accipiters including advanced birders. And that is why your range map for NG, should be expanded by 40 per cent. Nelson Briefer, NG Specialist, Anacortes,WA.

You’re doing a good job 👏

As Raptor numbers increased grouse numbers declined. How do you explain that? I don’t believe in coincidence and I have a even harder job trusting in canned studies, which is exactly what most studies are. Wildlife Officials sighting habitat loss as the primary reason for the dramatic declines in Grouse is rubbish. The habitat did not decrease everywhere and yet the Grouse populations have plummeted in virtually every area, even where prime habitat exists. It’s Raptors people! Figure it out, if your looking for a multiyear study to substantiate the obvious you’re not going to get it. The very agency’s that have been responsible for protecting Raptors are not going to go down the road of even entertaining the idea of proving they were wrong. I am college educated and have raised game birds ( Grouse and Bobwhite Quail) for 40 years, I’m also a hunter. Here’s the results of my 40 year Study. 1 Coopers Hawk 300 Bobwhite dead. 1 Red Tail Hawk 23 Bantam Americana Chickens in 2 days, they are the same size as a grouse. Hunting in North Dakota in 2022 and 2023 I witnessed more Raptors year over year and more obvious raptor kills on Pheasant. Hunting Woodcock in New England and state stocked Pheasant. I saw more raptor killed Woodcock and Pheasant then I did live birds. Folks wake up before it’s too late! If you wait for the State and Federal Government to produce multiple studies to push the politicians into passing new legislation to reenact laws allowing for the killing of Raptors you will be dead and gone along with all of the upland game birds. But rest assured your tax dollars will be spent on studies to substantiate spending more money on Habitat management! They will create the Garden of Eden for Game Birds and not one grouse or quail will be left to enjoy it.

How does a hawk kill a chicken? Suffocation, breaking spinal chord ?

nice bird

Dear Sir: I love many of your ideas. I yearn to put my yard on the map and encourage biodiversity on my property. But the website does NOT work as you promised. The only thing that is returned is "warm desert" (I'm zone 7b, up in Prescott, Arizona). You INSIST that I plant cottonwood (not one of the seedless cultivars, I've got to encourage the highly flammable cottony fluff all over my yard) Ponderosa pine and Douglas Fir. The three plants that the local fire department rails against and is trying to ban outright. Why? Once they catch fire, they can't be extinguished, and they provide a "fire ladder" (as dry cottony seeds and really tall resinous trees do) that accelerates the spread of fire. I LIVE IN A FIRE CANYON!!! I love your project, I truly do. I will put in wildlife ponds, and have messy untended areas of the garden, and plant desert adapted trees (mesquite, acacia); but I WILL NOT burn my house down to help out Mother Nature! Good grief - that is an absolutely insane suggestion. No. Absolutely not. I will plant yuccas and agaves and Mexican needle palms and other natives and near-natives but I will not burn my entire property to the ground and accelerate the spread of fire based on your extremely limited data base!

Great work! Excellant to share the project! Thanks Hawkwatch Intl!

Pretty bird

So only the eagles youse dont want to help the jack rabbits help with habitat or the disease that kills them the good ole days when bountys were king

The Cedar Grove Ornithological Research Station was excited to have Chris visit and work at our raptor trapping this year.

Excellent video. I live in Jacksonville, Florida and have many red tails in my neighborhood. I enjoy their morning and afternoon “conversations”. God bless. 😄

I like hawk Eagle falcon

I also live in Oxford small world

Thanks for posting! 👍♥️

I have been watching raptor's since I was 5 year's old.I was Lucky Enough to See the Migration Overhead Here in my House,in the Late 1990's! Day Long, All Type's Were Up in the Air, Some Higher than other's! I Watched ALL Day Long! I Also Had a Mated Pair of Harriers Successfully raise several Brood's of Young Birds! The Father's Call As He Sent Off his Young Male, Sounded so Funny, Almost Like A Loud Kazoo!😂

slides (to be continued): 08:03 major groups of hawks 12:25 red-tailed hawk 19:16 red-tailed hawk, juvenile 20:57 red-tailed hawks, juvenile and adult 23:44 red-tailed hawk, adult

Cool 😎

Cool I have been to the trapping site there thanks for the viewing time today

Young red tail hawk

If you guys end up adding on Elko County NV... Especially near the Rubies/Lamoille (soooooo many kestrels there), I'll be your point person. Just say the word 😂🥹🫶

Lovely! Really enjoying these..

I would add Hawks in Flight, the Dunne, Sibley, and Sutton breakthrough book to the list.

#packwatch #hawkwatch

very nice persentation beta .

Thank you for this amazing presentation

Does golden eagle drink water??

Annoyed I missed this today. Thanks for uploading 🐦

Sad the videos were so horrible. But great info, thanks

Appreciate your video😊 Well captured!

I don’t see Merlin’s on your list for Alaska

They are definitely not lazy. When calories are so hard to get, minimizing energy output is a matter of survival.

What I find funny is originally Raptors were small dinosaurs about the size of a baby T-Rex.

I joined HawkWatch in 1993 at the age of 16. Raptors and Hawkwatch were important parts of my formative years. Even though I didn't ultimately choose a conservation career path, my involvement with Hawkwatch and its members and staff have been incredibly formative and foundational to me. My experiences on the Goshutes and in the classroom with educational raptors will never be forgotten. Stephen Hoffman has been a real life hero to me and I simply have to say that his genuine passion and dedication to conservation and birds of prey is heartfelt and inspirational. Thank you for sharing this great interview!

Thanks for the close encounters with all those beautiful raptors! Hoping to be able to do so in person in 2022, virus allowing, of course ….

is there any evidence of migration amongst gyrs ?

sensational symposium !

noice

Beautiful creature!

Nice video. Where do I find silhouettes for days...?

The Red Tailed is my favorite of all Hawks I love it’s very well known screech

Excellent visual presentation. Sustained work. Educative. Thank you for sharing

I'm far in the East , actually Chesapeake bay MD , and the Prairie Falcon is the closest to what I see in my identification of the 2 that just cruised over an hour ago ... good sized Falcon , perhaps 32" + wingspan , bright blue sky above , very pointed wings rather longish (not broad) , definite V (drawn bow as you saw) of wings in cruise , appears much whitish/v. light gray underneath view w/definite scattered darker markings from underneath , long tail closed up (I think more square tipped than rounded) and head seemed well forward due to somewhat long neck ... but perhaps another type Falcon (??) ... Ha , "What's That Raptor" got me here , lol ... "there not Parrots" was a good one ... Now canoeing up on the Potomac river w/my wife one day just out of the confluence with the Monocacy , a beautiful White GryFalcon decided to hover over my head and try to pluck something from my hair (or trying to scare me off) , was persistent but eventually went back to it's tree on the shoreline , pretty large bird up close , lol ...

Do you have any tips for being a ghost when you photo raptors ? They never cease to amaze me how incredible their acuity and awareness... and while I gotten better because when I first saw my first eagle at first I couldn't contain my excitement and I was pretty terrible at being inconspicuous I've been as goofy as pretending like I'm kicking a rock because it's like I'm a dead giveaway and I noticed it's really impacted them being comfortable not to say that I ever infringed or harassed them I always keep a very respectful distance in error on the side of caution if they're on the hunt but I know you've given some great tips I might go back to trying to silence my shutter but do you have any like cool hacks or tips about making them I always say that and I've commented a couple times and I post on Facebook I've never been more grateful for a life-form to be totally indifferent to my presence it's always my great indicator once in awhile I do get lucky and they seem to be indifferent to my presence but most times I feel like I jumped the gun and their repulsed I guess and just go on about their way

Awesome lesson!! I fell in love/became addicted with BIF photography when I purchased my first stand-alone camera 1.5 yr ago...I was hooked almost immediately.. i am on my second camera, both bridge cameras although the upgrade from the Panasonic FZ1000 to the Sony RX10 MIV has been really awesome...with the 24 frames per second I have take thousands of photos of raptors ...it is always such an incredible thrill when I am graced with their presence... its crazy though how that 1/2500 really became my go to SS ... I like to stick with 4.0 ap because of how it seems to really give the bird an almost 3d quality about it along with it being faster ..but if I had a dollar for every time part of the bird .. usually the bill isn't sharp... ..as much as I love the Sony I have become greedy wishing I had went big .. I really do have immersed myself and I'm always trying my best to had the camera completely ready to go So within but I kind of consider myself a student and I use great people like yourself as surrogate teachers.. I've got a lot of great tips from you and I want to thank you and it's also very encouraging because some of the things you have said I have I'm currently doing but I'm going to keep watching because I've already gained so much great insight and I'm only a quarter of the way through your lesson I'm really trying to work to get the camera to be as capable as it is as I feel the cameras quite fine it's me who has to be able to operate it so we can have the ability to do what it can do... it's crazy though and it's if I drop below that 2500 and I was shocked because a lot of the images were pretty sharp but like you said it's definitely a lower keeper rate but thanks again and forgive the run-on sentences I'm talking this into my phone I really appreciate your selfless effort and your abilities and passion are inspiring I'm going to look you up and see if your on Instagram thanks again William from NJ .. ps if I find your IG and see a request from gothicserpantphoto it's me ... I really love not only taking photos but enjoying the beautiful captures everyone takes and Instagram has really been a great Outlet for that take care

One afternoon I saw about 15 oceanographers staring at the sky at the Naval Oceanographic Office in Mississippi. They were watching what all thought were a pair of white frigate birds. I knew there were no white frigate birds. I checked the Cornell University site and found they were swallow-tailed kites. They were beautiful.