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Broad-winged Hawk Research
There and Back Again: Tracking Broad-winged Hawk Migration
Featured in the spring 2024 issue of Northern Woodlands Magazine.
Every spring, raptors migrate by the hundreds of thousands from Central and South America to their northern nesting grounds, and every autumn they migrate back again, along with their newly fledged young. It’s been called the “greatest show above earth” and, although hawk watches throughout the Northeast regularly record upward of 15 different raptor species, the broad-winged hawk is arguably the star of the autumn show.
On Hawk Mountain with Rebecca McCabe
Seen on Northern Woodlands website in their Community Voices section.
Studying forest-nesting raptors can be challenging at times, as many are quite elusive during the breeding season. There are many cases where we – staff, trainees, and volunteers – come back from a few hours in the field without having seen or heard the hawks. But we will all tell you that although it can be frustrating, it’s never a bad day, because we get to walk in the woods.
Broad-winged Hawk research in Vermont
Seen on Vermont Institute of Natural Science blog.
Several months following Broad-winged Hawks around Vermont culminated in a successful trapping expedition with researchers from Hawk Mountain Sanctuary’s Broad-winged Hawk Project. In early July Laurie Goodrich and Rebecca McCabe joined us with the goal of deploying GPS transmitters on local birds.
Meet “MUSKOKA”, a Hawk on a Journey to Inform Conservation Efforts
Seen on Birds Canada 'Featured News Stories' website.
In 2022, the researchers tagged four birds in Ontario in order to learn about the migration routes, migration stopovers, and wintering sites of birds that breed in this part of Canada. The researchers will continue to track these birds over the next few years to monitor their survival and study land cover at potential nest sites and surrounding available habitat. All of this will be used to inform conservation planning recommendations for Canadian-breeding Broad-winged Hawks.
To Protect Broad-winged Hawks, We First Need to Know Where They Migrate
Seen on Audubon.org
Researchers Laurie Goodrich and Rebecca McCabe are demystifying the long journeys of these migratory raptors to better inform conservation efforts.
Tagging Along with Broad-Winged Hawks
Seen on Harris Center for Conservation Education's site.
In June 2021, the Harris Center hosted Hawk Mountain researchers as part of a new research collaboration to better understand broad-winged hawk ecology by tracking the migration of hawks breeding in New Hampshire to their wintering grounds in Central and South America and back.
Rosalie Lands in Peru!
Seen on Kittatinny Ridge Coalition's website.
Dr. Laurie Goodrich gives updated reports on Rosalie, a tagged and tracked broad-winged hawk that nests in the Kittatinny Ridge, who made it to her winter home after traveling over 5000 miles from southern Peru.
ESU Graduate Student Conducts Breaking Research on Broad-winged Hawks
Seen on ESU Insider.
Using satellite transmitters to track the movements of Broad-winged Hawks is just one component of ESU graduate student Rebecca McCabe’s ground breaking research on this species
Conserving Pennsylvania’s Kittatinny Ridge: The Premier Migration Range
Seen on Appalachian Trail Conservancy's website.
The fall raptor migrations of the Appalachian Trail are stunning, especially along the Kittatinny Ridge—the premier migration range of the eastern U.S.
From the Raptor Diaries
Getting Hooked on an Amazing Buteo: My First Year as a Broad-winged Hawk Project Volunteer
Broadwing Project volunteer, Cheryl Faust, shares what it was like searching for the elusive broad-winged hawk during summer 2022.
Read more >Acoustic Study of Broad-winged Hawks
Learn about Natia Javakhishvili's exciting graduate research using autonomous recording units (ARUs) to detect broad-winged hawks in Pennsylvania forests.
Read more >The Broad-winged Hawk Project Expands its Wings to Connecticut
Hear from project collaborator Larry Fischer on his experience trapping broadwings in Connecticut.
Read more >The Expanding Broad-winged Hawk Project
The Broad-winged Hawk Project teams up with The Harris Center for Conservation Education to track nesting broadwings in New Hampshire.
Read more >Broad-winged Hawks Overwintering in the Neotropics
The HMS science team found that broad-winged hawks migrate into South America to winter in less-disturbed forest habitat found in Brazil, Colombia, and Peru, but still face significant threats.
Read more >A Canadian Collaboration
In summer 2020, a new broadwing tagging and tracking collaboration found success in Ontario, Canada.
Read more >Where the Broadwings Roam
Hawk Mountain joined forces with researchers from Simcoe County Banding Group to expand research and conservation efforts throughout North America.
Read more >Living on the Edge
Rebecca McCabe collaborated with Dr. Laurie Goodrich and colleagues at East Stroudsburg University to study the nesting ecology of broad-winged hawks in three regions of Pennsylvania.
Read more >The Broad-winged Hawks of Mountaineer Village
Volunteer Holly Hartshorne contributes to the Broad-winged Hawk Project by searching for and monitoring a breeding couple and their nest.
Read more >Searching for Two Secretive Forest-Raptors
Field Assistant Lauren Sarnese recalls her time searching the forests for northern goshawk and broad-winged hawk nests.
Read more >Bridging the Gap of Research and Education
In 2017, Education Intern Kirsten Fuller organized and created an interactive curriculum about the broad-winged hawk using Hawk Mountain's collected data.
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