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Vote for TE3!

April 29, 2025

Our partner Explore.org is running a Top Live Cam Moments of 2025 Contest! Help us put Mrs. T and TE3 at the top of the list by following this link: https://explore.org/contest and clicking ‘Vote’ under ‘T3 fledges’. It’s legal to vote for your favorite eaglet more than once, although you’ll have to refresh your browser to do so! Go TE3 and Mrs. T! Here’s the video, but you’ll have to follow the link to vote: https://explore.org/contest.

A Year with the Trempealeau Eagles: 2025 Season Recap

July 18, 2025: TE3 and Mrs. T

We’re continuing our 2025 recaps with Trempealeau. The year began without surprises – Mr. T was attentive, Mrs. T laid three eggs, and both bald eagles actively tended their nest. After March 19, however, Mr. T began spending noticeably less time there. He disappeared entirely between March 27 and April 5, and when he finally returned, his visits were brief and infrequent. Mrs. T carried on alone, managing incubation, brooding, and provisioning of all three eaglets, who began hatching on

December 3, 2025: Thanks and News and NestFlix from the North Nest!

December 1, 2025: Nest capades at the North Nest!

Thank you so much to everyone who made a donation yesterday! Every donation in any amount keeps cameras running, supports our field work, protects nests, and brings the lives of raptors into homes and classrooms around the world. If you’d like to take a deeper look at what we did in 2025, follow this link: https://www.raptorresource.org/raptorresource/pdf/2025BandingReport.pdf. We were on the go this year! Today we’re sharing Nestflix and news from the Decorah North Nest, where it’s been a busy few

New Threats to the Endangered Species Act

Decorah Calendar: HM and HD

The Trump administration is trying to make big changes to the Endangered Species Act. It revealed a slew of revisions Nov. 19. These changes have big implications for threatened and endangered species and their critical habitat. The Services will accept public comments on these proposals through December 22, 2025. Comments will be accepted through the U.S. Mail or online at www.regulations.gov under the Docket Number for each proposal. Read on for more information, docket numbers, and links. FWS-HQ-ES-2025-0039: Endangered and

Announcing…our 2025 Annual Report!

I loved this capture of two of the fledglings. Fledge is one of the very times in their lives that falcons exhibit social behavior.

Announcing: our 2025 Annual Report! Read it to learn more about the work we do with Peregrine Falcons, Bald Eagles, Golden Eagles, and migratory raptors. Report: https://www.raptorresource.org/raptorresource/pdf/2025BandingReport.pdf And if you like our work – or even just our streams! – please donate to our Giving Tuesday fundraiser. Your generosity keeps cameras running, supports field studies, protects nests, and brings the lives of raptors into homes and classrooms around the world. Thank you so much for your support! Giving Tuesday Fundraiser:

A Reflection and a Thanksgiving: Dave Kester Remembers Bob

Dave Kester and Bob Anderson at Command Central, Decorah Eagles, circa 2011.

Thanksgiving 2025 is upon us. This year, it falls on Bob’s birthday. Dear Amy has asked/tasked me to write a reflection of my thoughts on Bob Anderson and what he means to me.  This request feels simultaneously like a big ask and also a simple one.  It’s been ten years now since we lost Bob to the ancestors and I find I miss him more as time passes. The same day Amy asked me to this I had taken my

Join us on Tuesday, December 2, for our Giving Tuesday Fundraiser!

Join us for Giving Tuesday!

We’re holding our Giving Tuesday Fundraiser on Tuesday, December 2. Your generosity keeps cameras running, supports field studies, protects nests, and brings the lives of raptors into homes and classrooms around the world. Thank you so much for your support! We’ll hold Giving Tuesday chats as follows, all times Central Daylight: Join us to talk about HD and his new mate’s work on N6 (we plan to have the cameras we placed in the N6 tree online soon), the Decorah

2025 recaps: A truly rewarding season at Great Spirit Bluff

Look at that face! 😍

We’re kicking off our 2025 year-end recaps with a standout season at Great Spirit Bluff! Following an eventful start, Elaine paired successfully with Newman, and the two produced four healthy young falcons. We banded the quartet on May 30, and by June 14 they were beginning to launch into their first flights, filling the sky around GSB with fledgling wings. Watchers enjoyed seeing the sibling squadron chase, bicker, hang out together, and gain the skies. By August, the young peregrines

N6: A New Nest To Watch!

HD and his new companion working on N6.

What nest are you showing in Decorah? For the last few days, we’ve been watching HD and his new mate work on N6, which is right next to Siewer’s Spring Road just north of the trout hatchery. You Are Entering the Decorah Nest Zone. Hard Hats Optional! There have been six nests built in the vicinity of the hatchery. Dad and OM, or original mate, built N0, the first nest, in about 2002. She was blind in one eye and

A Golden Eagle from the Blue Mountain

Jack trapped alone that day in 1992 when he banded the eagle Krumrie and Morales recaptured in early 2025. Here Jack Holt holds a Golden Eagle trapped on the Kittatinny Ridge in 1999.

Guest post by K. L. Frock “Golden Eagle. Also uncommon, occurring mostly in late October and early November. As many as six can be seen on a major flight day. Capture is another matter. Adults are seldom caught but immatures are quite easily trapped providing they are hungry and haven’t been banded by a researcher before us. Their approach has all the finesse of a freight train without brakes – and sounds much the same way. They frequently overshoot the

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