Nest Monitoring

In 2003, landowners along Whychus Creek, noticed the nest of a Golden Eagle (Aquila chrysaetos) on the canyon wall across the creek from their property. They monitored the nest and saw one of the chicks fledge. The site wasn’t used again until 2...

Kim Boddie met Don and Lowell Franks after both brothers had retired and were living in Fort Rock. Together they all participated in Winter Raptor Surveys and talked about the nest boxes Don and Lowell had built and set out. For years after the Fr...

Beginning with one nest box fledging five American Kestrels (Falco sparverius) in 1988, Don McCartney led the growth of this Central Oregon Kestrel Nest Box Trail into one of the largest and most successful information gathering projects of its ki...

For more than a decade, ECBA members have been monitoring 28 Mountain Bluebird (Sialia currucoides) and Western Bluebird (Sialia mexicana) nest boxes on two “bluebird trails” near Sisters. In the ensuing years, other locations have been added,...