Remarkable Raptors and Their Highways in the Sky
Wednesday, September 15, 2021
4:00 - 5:00 p.m. EDT
Learn about the incredible migratory journeys that remarkable raptors take each year, and how people across North America count them for research. Following this presentation you can head out to a hawk watch near you to use these newfound skills!
Ryan MacLean is the Bird Education Specialist of the Greenwich Audubon Center where he conducts in-person school programs, bird tours and private adventures as well as virtual webinars on a variety of natural history subjects. He was also the official hawk counter for Quaker Ridge Hawk Watch for six seasons and has counted hawks professionally at the Braddock Bay Spring Hawk Watch in Rochester, NY. |
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Did you know that an average of 20,000 hawks, eagles, falcons, and vultures migrate over Greenwich Audubon Center’s Quaker Ridge Hawk Watch every fall? Join Audubon naturalist Ryan MacLean to learn about their life histories and how to identify these skilled hunters of the air.
This presentation will cover:- How and why do raptors migrate? What skills and tricks do they use on these journeys?
- A brief history of hawk watching and how data is collected.
- Identifying the major families of diurnal raptors in flight by shape and behavior (hawks, falcons, eagles, vultures).
- When and where to go hawk watching.
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