This breeding season, Harris Center staff, interns, and volunteers banded 17 American Kestrel chicks and monitored six Broad-winged Hawk nests and territories. Next up — tallying the migrating raptors soaring over Pack Monadnock!
In the summer of 2023, interns provided essential support for a wide variety of projects, from conservation easement monitoring to invasive species removal to forest community inventory.
This spring, volunteers, interns, and staff from the Harris Center constructed and placed more than 20 nest boxes for kestrels in 11 towns across the Monadnock Region.
The Harris Center “Kestrels” placed second in the birding competition, but won big for kestrel conservation efforts.
On January 28, the Harris Center will compete for top honors in Mass Audubon’s Superbowl of Birding, while raising funds to construct, install, and monitor kestrel nest boxes.
In the pilot season of a new monitoring project, Kestrels are showing signs of breeding success at nest boxes in Hancock.
The Harris Center is expanding our efforts to monitor three raptor species in decline: Broad-winged Hawk, American Kestrel, and Northern Goshawk.
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