The Rough-legged Hawk Project

The Rough-legged Hawk Project

Neil Paprocki, PhD candidate at the University of Idaho and part of the Rough-legged Hawk Project, returned to Wisconsin again in 2022 to attach transmitters sponsored by Sue Kaehler, Kelly Centofanti, and Madison Audubon to more hawks.

Photo by Neil Paprocki

2022 Madison-area CBC results

2022 Madison-area CBC results

Each December, birders come together for the longest-running citizen science project in the US: the Christmas Bird Count. The national effort is coordinated by National Audubon Society, but there are thousands of counts done locally, coordinated by local birders. In the Madison-area, the count is coordinated by Madison Audubon, and put on with help from over 100 volunteers each year.

Photo by Arlene Koziol

Eagle Entanglement

Eagle Entanglement

On Monday December 5, I was called to break up a fight. But this wasn’t an ordinary argument—it was between two Bald Eagles that had become entangled so completely that they were stuck together on the ground in front of UW Farms, about half a mile south of Goose Pond.

Madison Audubon photo