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!
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.
In the fall of 2022, the Harris Center conducted a pilot season of saw-whet owl banding on SuperSanctuary lands, as part of an international research effort to better understand this charismatic species.
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.
2022 was a notable year for the Pack Monadnock Raptor Observatory. Here are the highlights.
This August, the Harris Center piloted a monitoring effort to document the fall migration of the state-endangered Common Nighthawk through the Monadnock Region.
Grasshopper Sparrows have a better chance for breeding success in Greenfield, thanks to several friends of the Harris Center.
This spring, go on the trip of a lifetime with these books about one of nature’s most remarkable phenomena — migration.
2021 was a notable year for the Pack Monadnock Raptor Observatory. Here are the highlights.
NH Audubon recently honored the Harris Center’s Eric Masterson with the Goodhue-Elkins Award for outstanding contributions to the study of New Hampshire birds.
In July, Harris Center staff and volunteers worked with Loon Preservation Committee biologists to rescue an adult loon that had been swept down Nubanusit Brook in high water.
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