Raptors

After three decades of consistently and meticulously tallying the daily fall raptor migration at the Golden Gate, we have a lot of great data, and we have an amazing ability to see a kind of baseline raptor migration story for the 19 species that are seen here annually.

For example,

Although full interpretive talks weren’t possible in 2022, we did arrange our weekend schedules so that one GGRO staff person would also be a greeter to informally talk to people about the migration on Hawk Hill, and the results were wonderful.

It is no surprise that, as a forty-year-old Community Science program, the GGRO’s scientific publications and presentations should be steeped in collaboration and partnership.

There was a weird and striking delay in Sharpshins.

Beyond being widely misunderstood by the general public, Turkey Vultures are often misunderstood from an ecological perspective as well.

In 2022, the GGRO Banding Program had huge accomplishments before the field season even started.

The 2022 fall migration was a season of almost-recovery from COVID-19, but someone forgot to tip off the hawks, as we had one of our lowest overall counts in many years.

Explore trends over 30 years of Red-shouldered Hawk migration observed at Hawk Hill.