This site is maintained by John Battalio. I work in the Technical Communication Program at Boise State University in Boise, Idaho. Email me. I'd like to hear from you!

I've been interested in raptors and other birds of prey for about eighteen years. I've conducted hawk watches in Mississippi, Louisiana, and Texas for the Hawk Migration Association of North America (HMANA); was the Western editor of Hawk Migration Studies, HMANA's journal, for ten years; and was on its Board of Directors for a term.

I'm most familiar with the migrations of Broad-winged Hawks, Mississippi Kites, and Red-tailed Hawks over the central and western U.S. Gulf Coast. The most exciting experience I've had was at Hazel Bazemore County Park in Corpus Christi, Texas, where tens of thousands of Broad-winged Hawks are visible in late September. If you spend a week or so there between the 19th and 28th of the month, I'll guarantee you'll be amazed at what you'll see. If you haven't already, visit their web site: Texas Coastal Bend Fall Hawkwatch.

Falconry

• Borch's Falconry (Also contains links to other raptor sites.)
• The Falconry and Raptor Education Foundation
• Falconry Canada
• The Hawking Centre (Falconry display, education and conservation centre at Farming World, near Faversham in Kent)
• William F. Snell: Metal Fabrication Falconry Equipment (Falconry links and raptor rehabilitation information.)
• Northwoods Falconry (Falconry equipment.)
• Online Zoologists—Falconry
• Perthshire Falconry Services (Located in Perthshire, Scotland. Includes photos of raptors and falconry equipment.)

Miscellaneous Raptor Links

• Birds of Nebraska: An Interactive Guide (Nebraska Game and Parks Commission. Scroll to the "eagles, hawks, kites, falcons" link.)
• Birds of Prey in Oklahoma (Contains links to birds of prey pages and sounds.)
• Global Raptor Information Network (Information on diurnal raptors and to facilitate communication between raptor researchers and organizations interested in the conservation of these species.)
• Hawk Watch! (The Virtual Birder.)
• Hawk Watch—The Ornithology WebSite (Basic raptor identification guide with raptor silhouettes.)
• Notes from the Field (From the Peregrine Fund. Updates and pictures from the biologists and students working in the field or at The World Center for Birds of Prey.)
• Raptor Rambles (Commercial site but has information about raptors in the United Kingdom.)
• Washington Breeding Bird Atlas (Follow the links to distribution maps for raptors in the state of Washington.)

Owls

• North American Owls (From owling.com)
• The Owl Pages
• World Owl Trust

Raptor Identification

• Online Bird Guide (From All About Birds, Cornell Lab of Ornithology. Select a species from the drop-down boxes.)
• The Raptor Center: University of Minnesota (Scroll to the "Information about Raptors" drop-down box.)
• WhatBird (Scroll down to the yellow bars, and search for your raptor.)

Raptor Observatories—United States

(See Species Accounts below for two migration tracking sites.)

• Appalachian Mountains, especially the Blue Ridge Parkway
• California
  • Golden Gate Raptor Observatory
• Idaho
• Idaho Bird Observatory: Boise Ridge
• Minnesota
  • Hawk Ridge Nature Reserve (Duluth)
• New Jersey
  • Chimney Rock Hawk Watch (Martinsville)
• New York
  • Braddock Bay
  • Hawkwatch: FIRE (Fire Island Raptor Enumerators) (Long Island)
• Texas
  • Texas Hawkwatches (Corpus Christi)
• West Virginia
  • Hanging Rock Raptor Observatory (Monroe County)

Raptor Observatories—Other Countries

• Canada
  • Niagara Peninsula Hawkwatch (Grimsby, Ontario)

Raptor Organizations

• American Eagle Foundation
• The Birds of Prey Foundation
• The Hawk Conservancy
• Hawk Migration Association of North America
• Hawk Mountain Sanctuary
• HawkWatch International
• The Peregrine Fund/World Center for Birds of Prey
• Raptor Education Foundation
• Raptor Research Foundation

Raptor Photos, Paintings, and Drawings

• Birds of America (From the National Audubon Society. Click the "List of Families" link at the top. Then click "Family II" for raptor photos.)
• Birds of Prey
• English index of Robert Goedegebuur (Over 100 photos of birds of prey from around the world.)
• Hanging Rock Raptor Observatory (Contains over 300 photos of 17 species. Calls for 14 species.)
• Hawks in Flight Gallery (Hawks in Flight galleries by Arthur Morris and Brian K. Wheeler from the Virtual Birder.)
• Images of Birds by Wernher Krutein (Photos of owls and eagles.)
• Janet E. Marshall: Bird & Botanical Art (Click the Art Galleries link for paintings of a number of New Zealand's raptors.)
• Ornithology WebSite's Photo Gallery (Raptor photos interspersed with those of other species.)
• Photo Gallery by Peter Mandeville Lewis And Amanda Kaye Paull (Photos of buteos, accipiters, vultures, falcons, kites, and eagles.)
• Scotland Raptors (Photos of owls, falcons, and buteos from Scotland Photographs.)
• The Virtual Bird (Contains links to raptor photos.)

Raptor Rehabilitation

• Adopt-a-Bird
• California Raptor Center
• Cascades Raptor Center (Eugene, Oregon)
• Florida Audubon Center for Birds of Prey
• O.W.L. (Orphaned Wildlife Rehabilitation Society; Delta, British Columbia.)
• The Raptor Center: University of Minnesota
• Raptors of the Rockies (Florence, Montana)
• The Southeastern Raptor Center
• Three Rivers Avian Center (Summers County, West Virginia)

Raptor Sounds

• North American Bird Sounds (From Naturesongs.com. Click the FALCONIFORMES [Raptors] and STRIGIFORMES [Owls]) links.)

Search Engines

• Try google.com.

Species Accounts

• General
  • Alberta's Special Places (By Ray Rasmussen. Click the endangered species link at the bottom of the page for links to several Alberta, Canada, raptor species, as well as a list of raptor links.)
  • The North American Breeding Bird Survey (Includes links to life-history accounts, trends, graphs, and maps for raptor species.)
  • U. S. Fish & Wildlife Service (Searchable database of USF&WS documents; type the name of your favorite raptor.)
  • Wildlife Fact Sheets (From the Texas Parks & Wildlife Department; listing includes Ferruginous Hawk, American Kestrel, Mississippi Kite, Northern Harrier, and Swainson's Hawk.)
• Peregrine Falcon
  • The Canadian Peregrine Foundation
  • Peregrine Falcon Home Page: University of Calgary
  • The Avian Science and Conservation Centre: McGill University (Click the "Conservation of Endangered Species" link.)
• Swallow-Tailed Kite
  • Kite Site 2000 (Follow the migration of a rehabilitated Swallow-Tailed Kite that was fitted with a solar-powered satellite transmitter prior to its release on August 28, 2000. The kite was rehabilitated by Audubon's National Center for Birds of Prey.)
• Turkey Vulture
  • Turkey Vulture Society

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