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 [...]
Archive for March, 2009
Feb 28, 2009: Call for observers in WV
March 11th, 2009 by TRAC
Well, it’s a BIT early for peregrine falcon territory displays, but evidence is accumulating for an early wild bird breeding season this year. Keep an eye out, and if you can, report back the same day. It’d help us a lot. Any bands seen or (ha!) satellite transmitters you see (number off the transmitter would [...]
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March 9th, 2009 by TRAC
3-3-09 Monitoring for peregrine falcon nesting behavior near the hack location and at the New River Gorge Bridge will begin on Thursday, March 5th and continue through the rest of the month and into the beginning of April. We hope to accumulate at least 50 hours intermittent monitoring over that time.
2-28-09: One of the peregrines [...]
New River Gorge Peregrine Restoration Project general info
March 9th, 2009 by TRAC
The New River Gorge Peregrine Restoration Project began in 2006 as a joint effort by The Center for Conservation of Biology at the College of William and Mary, theNew River Gorge National River (National Park Service), the WV Division of Natural Resources’ (“WV DNR”)Wildlife Diversity Program and Three Rivers Avian Center (“TRAC”). The [...]
WV Golden Eagle Tracking Study info
March 9th, 2009 by TRAC
This is a discussion forum about the Golden Eagle Tracking Study currently underway in WV. It was initiated by the National Aviary in 2005 and is facilitated in West Virginia by the WV Department of Natural Resources (“WV DNR”) biologists.
Cully McCurdy, Manager of the WV DNR’s Rimel Wildlife Management Area in Pocahontas County, [...]
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Photos from the 3-3-09 capture & banding @ Rimel
March 9th, 2009 by TRAC
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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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2009 TRAC Facility Summer Tour Days
March 2nd, 2009 by TRAC
Three Rivers Avian Center will host free public tour days of our facility on the following Saturdays from 1 – 5 pm: May 2, June 6, July 4, August 1, September 5 and October 3. These days are the only ones for free public tours of the facility; all other tours are by appointment only.
The [...]
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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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