This book is a tribute to the Three Rivers Avian Center (TRAC) in Brooks, WV and to it’s veterinarians, volunteers and donors. The Center’s co-directors, Ron and Wendy Perrone, have released hundreds of rehabilitated birds to the wild. Many of the birds included in this book are considered “education” birds at TRAC, birds that could [...]
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Newly published book “WV Birds of Prey” is a tribute to Three Rivers Avian Center
August 24th, 2010 by TRAC
TRAC’s 20th Anniversary Celebration July 3 from 1 – 5 pm
June 24th, 2010 by TRAC
Join us at Three Rivers Avian Center for our 20th Anniversary celebration on Saturday July 3, 2010 from 1 – 5 pm! Free tours of the Center, hot dogs, displays, kids activities and hourly door prizes. Free and open to the public, lots of fun for all ages. Bring your friends, bring your family, and [...]
Hack Box video of young peregrines from James River Reserve Fleet
May 24th, 2010 by TRAC
As we were cleaning the hack box today, we thought you’d enjoy seeing and hearing from the young peregrines inside it. These birds are from Virgina’s James River Reserve Fleet (4 birds) and Watts Island (1 bird). They were placed in the box on Monday May 17 and are growing up fast! The [...]
2 Bald Eagle Chicks in nest near Hinton, WV
March 22nd, 2010 by TRAC
It’s hard to make the decision to go public, but with fishing trips and float trips down this part of the New River coming up soon, we thought it best to start the public knowledge ball rolling as soon as the chicks were seen. Our thinking was that the more “eyes on the prize” [...]
Bird Vision
February 19th, 2010 by TRAC
So you think your vision is good? Check out this great article on bird vision . . http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/02/100216101159.htm
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Video on what happens when a raptor has lead poisoning. (2/11/10)
February 11th, 2010 by TRAC
Trish Miller let us know about this important video from U-Tube. It is a really well balanced depiction of exactly what happens when a raptor ingests lead fragments, and a discussion about where these fragments are being found as well as some ways to start dealing with the problem. (Please note, this is NOT an [...]
2009 New River Gorge Peregrine Falcon Restoration Project Report now available
January 16th, 2010 by TRAC
We have posted our final report for the 2009 Peregrine Falcon Restoration Project. To download a copy go to http://tracwv.org/restoration.html and click on the link for a free full color PDF copy. The 2009 hack out at Grandview Park was a wonderful success with all 17 chicks fledged! Everyone who has supported this effort should [...]
7/23/09 Peregrines dispersing
July 23rd, 2009 by TRAC
The young peregrines are beginning to disperse. A group of 10 consisting mainly of members of the second release group with two add-ons each from both the first and third groups set out on their own as of 7/10/09. A few other stragglers have shown up here and there, so we think that a few [...]
Update for the week ending 5/16/09: peregrines!
May 15th, 2009 by TRAC
Sorry for the long silence on TRAC updates – we got really, really, frantically busy in the interim. A pair of peregines showed up at the hacksite near the NRG Bridge and set up a nest site right under our hack boxes! This meant that we couldn’t use the site for hacking this year and [...]
Update for the week ending 3-14-09
March 16th, 2009 by TRAC
The week started off kind of quietly, catching up on office related tasks and beginning to organize the monitoring process to see if Peregrine Falcons have returned to the New River Gorge yet. A survey on the 5th turned up one, 2 more were spotted on the 12th. (See updates in the New River Gorge [...]
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Update for the week ending 3-7-09
March 9th, 2009 by TRAC
There has been a smorgasbord of activity here this week. Tuesday we were invited to join WV Dept of Natural Resources and the National Aviary to help capture some wild golden eagles in the Rimel Wildlife Management Area, gather some DNA and body measurements, fit them each with a transmitter back pack and release them [...]
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Update for the week ending 2-28-09
March 1st, 2009 by TRAC
Overall, a pretty quiet week of paperwork, cage cleaning and maintenance work. Yucky weather kept us focused on indoor tasks primarily. Application forms were mailed out on Thursday to individuals interested in the TRAC Summer Internship or Summer Residency. Deadline for submitting completed applications is March 10th, then it’s interviews with the applicants. We’ll [...]
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Update for the week ending 2-21-09
February 21st, 2009 by TRAC
If there is one phrase to sum up the week here, it would be “my BRAIN hurts!” Webmaster Ron spent the week upgrading all aspects of the web page – a massive amount of intense, detailed code writing, layout and text editing and photograph uploads. Since my computer screen shows the page slightly differently from [...]
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Update for the week ending 2-14-09
February 15th, 2009 by TRAC
Greetings, & update for the week ending 2-14-09
Filed under: Weekly Updates — Wendy Perrone @ 2:27 am
Hello! Thank you for joining our new Blog. Please spread the word to your friends. Here’s what’s been happening this past week:
Birds in: We received 5 patients this week: 2 pied billed grebes (which are kind of like small [...]
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