Would you please send me a map of the Lake Lowell South route? Trying to
determine if I can take that on in addition to helping Cheryl Huizinga with
her route.
On Sun, Oct 19, 2025 at 9:01 AM Jeff Fleischer via groups.io
<raptorrunner97321...> wrote:
> Hi Everyone,
>
> Over the years, I have advertised vacant winter raptor survey routes in
> Idaho on IBLE. In two weeks we are about to embark on our 22nd season of
> surveys for the Winter Raptor Survey Project sponsored by the East Cascades
> Bird Alliance (formerly Audubon Society). Surveys will be conducted on
> 629+ survey routes covering more than 35,000 miles of transects throughout
> all of ID, OR, and WA, throughout the northern tier of CA and UT,
> throughout western MT, and in southern BC Canada. More than 500 primary
> volunteers will do once a month surveys from December through February,
> with additional options to survey in November and March.
>
> I would like you to know that the following survey routes, with their
> mileage lengths, are still available for volunteers to be assigned to this
> winter :
>
> Lake Lowell South 85
> Emmett South 66
> Emmett - Horseshoe Bend. 84
> Weiser West 32
> Craigmont - Mohler. 60
> Nez Perce 71
> Churchill - Oakley 68
> Richfield 44
> Heyburn 41
> Minidoka NW 85
> Rupert North 69
> Burley East - Lake Walcott 67
> Burley SW 51
> American Falls - Rockland. 75
> Arimo - Virginia 56
> Ashton 76
> Dubois 51
>
> The fact that we have 153 routes throughout Idaho and that we only need
> these 17 routes to fill the entire state for this project says volumes
> regarding the dedication that Idaho volunteers in this project put forth :)
>
> To participate, I ask that our volunteers commit to doing one survey per
> month during the primary survey period from December through February.
> Volunteers can select survey dates each month to dovetail with their own
> life schedules. November and March are also available for surveying but
> these are optional months as they do contain migrational activity and this
> is a wintering project. You should have at least a pair of binoculars to
> help you find and ID the birds, spotting scopes are encouraged but not
> mandatory and you should be comfortable with IDing the common raptor
> species in these areas.
>
> If this sounds like something that you would like to do, I encourage you
> to email me soon so that you can hopefully cover the route(s) of your
> choice, I will necessarily fill these on a first come first served basis.
> If you make that decision, I will provide additional information and
> instruction to get you properly prepared for what you will be doing on
> these surveys. This is a fun way to enjoy winter birding while at the same
> time collecting valuable population data for this wonderful family of
> birds, I hope that you will join us this winter! :). Thank you,
>
> Jeff Fleischer
> Project Developer / Manager
> Winter Raptor Survey Project
> East Cascades Bird Alliance - Bend, OR (project sponsor)
>
>
>
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Louisa Evers
<elouisa603...>
Take care of the birds and you take care of the world
