A Raptor Conservation Update: Summer 2024
This summer, we monitored Broad-winged Hawk nests, expanded our kestrel nest box program, prepared for the 20th season of hawk migration monitoring at the Pack Monadnock Raptor Observatory, and more.
This summer, we monitored Broad-winged Hawk nests, expanded our kestrel nest box program, prepared for the 20th season of hawk migration monitoring at the Pack Monadnock Raptor Observatory, and more.
In the summer of 2024, student interns provided essential support for a wide variety of projects, from conservation easement monitoring to forest inventory.
A new Harris Center research project is using acoustic monitoring to search for the secretive American Goshawk, a species in decline.
An ambitious new study aims to track the Wood Thrush migration throughout North and Central America — including several birds tagged on Harris Center lands.
This spring, Harris Center staff, interns, and volunteers have installed nest boxes, monitored goshawk breeding territories, and more.
In March, the Harris Center protected a 10-acre Harrisville property with a scenic walking trail along Nubanusit Brook.
In 2023, our community scientists and interns documented 5 new vernal pools in four Monadnock Region towns.
Thanks to a generous landowner — and Harris Center supporters — 46 acres of exceptional wildlife habitat along the Peterborough-Hancock town line have been protected.
The Harris Center is working to protect 46 acres of exceptional wildlife habitat along Middle Road.
The Harris Center is working to protect land on Skatutakee’s eastern shoulder that will provide vital connectivity between conservation lands to the north and west.
In 2022, our community scientists and interns documented 5 new vernal pools in three Monadnock Region towns.
In December, generous landowners donated conservation easements on 103 forested acres in Antrim, and on 146 acres of farmland in Peterborough.