Date: 4/19/25 2:41 pm From: Nick Bolgiano <nickbolgiano...> Subject: State College Bird Club, Wed, April 23, 7 p.m., Zoom presentation: The Red-tailed Hawk Project
On Wed, Apr 23, 7 p.m., the State College Bird Club will be hosting Bryce
Robinson from Cornell Lab of Ornithology, who will give a Zoom presentation
on The Red-tailed Hawk Project.
This is timely because the Cornell Lab of Ornithology's Living Bird
magazine's recent issue has a cover article by Scott Weidensaul on this
very topic. There are generally thought to be about 16 subspecies of
Red-tailed Hawk and this project is a collaboration among researchers to
determine where the different subspecies winter and summer. For example,
some of the Red-tails that winter in the Central Plains are dark - where do
they breed? The Hawk Ridge hawk watch typically records a handful of
dark Red-tails every fall - where do they breed? Do some subspecies that
are mostly light-colored have some dark individuals? Those types of puzzles
are why the Red-tailed Hawk project started.
