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The 2011 Annual Raptor Research Foundation Conference will be held in Duluth Minnesota the first week of October. The meeting will host 119 scientific presentations including 93 oral presentations and 26 posters. For more information visit the conference website or download one of the pdf documents linked below. Conference Schedule Abstracts Full Program Book (~5MB… Continue reading 2011 Annual RRF Meeting Abstracts and Program Book available online
The 2011 election results are now final. Please help us welcome the new members of the RRF Board of Directors: Eurasian: Fabrizio Sergio North American #3: Rick Harness Director at Large #3: Rob Bierregaard Director at Large #6: Miguel Ferrer Their 3-year terms begin 1 January 2012. We had a great ballot of potential candidates… Continue reading 2011 RRF Election Results
Issue: United States Congressional Bills S838 and HR1558 recently introduced by the U.S.-based Congressional Sportsman’s Caucus (CSC) have the potential for negative impacts on wildlife, including raptors, by forever preventing the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency from regulating on lead in ammunition. Publicity from the CSC and others regarding these bills claim there is “no credible… Continue reading Call for Action: Spent Lead Ammunition Bills in US Congress
The Adventurers and Scientists for Conservation is a non-profit offering its members as volunteers for RRF raptor researchers. One of their missions is to “mobilize an army of citizen- scientists that creates an avenue for the science community to gather inexpensive, reliable, and otherwise unattainable datasets from around the world”. They strive to provide scientific… Continue reading Volunteer Raptor Observers – Adventurers and Scientists for Conservation
We’d like to thank the RRF members who made donations above and beyond their memberships in 2010! Donations to RRF can be to the endowment, which is used for our Grants and Awards, or to unrestricted (operating) funds. Thanks to the following members who made this commitment to our organization: Jack Barclay, Eduardo Inigo-Elias, Yasunori… Continue reading A Thank You to Our 2010 Donors!
The Journal of Raptor Research is planning a special issue on the topic of banding and movement ecology in raptors. Papers presented at the RRF 2010 conference special symposium on banding will be published together as a special issue in December 2011. Topics include banding of nestlings, long-term population monitoring, banding trends, band resightings, and… Continue reading Special Issue Journal of Raptor Research