Where are they now? An update on the 24 bald eagle chicks color banded by Pete Bloom between 2017-2022.
Written By Nicollet Overby
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Updates on BBI's current projects and news that relates to BBI's goals and interests.
Good News for Southern CA's Burrowing Owls
From LA to OC, burrowing owls are attempting a comeback in Southern California. Written by Nicollet Overby.
Read MoreBald eagle banding at Big Bear Lake
BBI was invited out to Big Bear lake to band the Bald eagle chicks this year before they fledged. Check out the video!
Read MoreThe malodorous side of raptor biology
BBI's Peter Bloom was recently featured in an article from the Wall Street Journal, examining the role of roadkill in biology and conservation efforts. There is a video as well, where Pete uses part of a musk deer to trap Turkey Vultures in an ongoing study effort to determine why their numbers have been "dwindling".
Read MorePete Bloom talk at RRF November 2015
Allen Fish and the folks at the Golden Gate Raptor observatory just sent us this link to Pete's talk from the 49th Raptor Research Foundation conference hosted at the Golden Gate Raptor Observatory in November of last year.
Pete's presentation "Fifty Years of California Raptor Conservation — Success, Failure, Works in Progress, & Insights for Future Research" was wonderfully filmed and we are delighted to be able to share it!
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Turkey Vulture tagging and trapping with Jackie and Pete
Here are photos of Turkey vulture trapping this past week with Jackie Catino and Peter Bloom.
Read Morepictures from the field June 2016
Swainson's hawk banding and other pictures from the field June 2016
Read MoreCA High Speed Rail newsletter, featuring BBI
California High Speed Rail Authority just published their small business newsletter featuring a nice article about BBI's involvement in the project. We are currently out in the field surveying for Swainson's hawks, a threatened species in CA.
Read MoreGreat Horned Owl Photo courtesy of Michael Kuehn
Out in the field
This Great Horned owl was photographed out in Kern County this week near the Cattani Ranch by BBI biologist Michael Kuehn. Spring is a busy time of year at BBI and we are currently in the field all over California and parts of Nevada.
Spotted!
At BBI we receive a lot of pictures of birds we have banded making appearances all over California. This year we have some turkey vultures and a Red-tailed Hawk. Thanks to Kat Avila, Joe Valley, and Devon Lang Pryor for the shots
Read MorePeterson Ranch - Mitigation Bank
Peterson Ranch has established the Land Veritas Mitigation Banks which will provide habitat for a number of important species. We were relatively peripheral to the creation of this land bank but our endorsement of it as credible Swainson’s Hawk habitat contributed to its acceptance.
More information here.....
BBI field work - spring 2015
June 16 - Peter Bloom raptor presentation at Torrance Audubon chapter.
PV/SB Audubon Chapter
Madrona Marsh Nature Center
3201 Plaza del Amo
Torrance, CA, 90503
7- 9 pm.
http://www.friendsofmadronamarsh.com/
Title: Unusual Movements of Raptors Banded in Southern California
Description: Peter will speak about some of the results from his dissertation research that includes a hitherto undescribed migration of fledgling and young adult Red-tailed Hawks from southwestern California to northerly latitudes at least as far a Yellowstone NP in Montana, and another component that looks at vagrancy (basically lost) in Red-shouldered Hawks also banded in southwestern California.
Open to the public. Light refreshments are provided. Free! Donations are greatly appreciated. For more information please contact the Madrona Marsh Nature Center at 310-782-3989.
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Golden Eagle Movement, ongoing study in southwestern CA
Dr. Peter Bloom along with Dr. Robert Fisher and Dr. Jeff Tracy of the U.S. Geological Survey, seen here placing radio telemetry units on Golden Eagles in southwestern California. Dr. Robert Fisher releases an adult female.
Read MoreSo Cal Red Tailed Hawk Migration Study, 40 yrs in the making, now published!
Chapter two of Dr. Peter Bloom's dissertation as newly published in the March 2015 issue of the Journal of Raptor Research! Northward Summer Migration of Red-Tailed Hawks Fledged from Southern Latitudes.
Link to the Journal of Raptor Research.
Chapter one of Dr. Bloom's dissertation published in 2011, Vagrant Western Red-shouldered Hawks: Origins, Natal Dispersal Patterns, and Survival. The Condor 113: 538-546