Teams like Jeffco's volunteer raptor monitoring program are stationed across the Front Range during nesting season every spring, observing nests weekly and taking notes
Teams like Jeffco’s volunteer raptor monitoring program are stationed across the Front Range during nesting season every spring. Michelle Desrosiers, a senior wildlife ecology specialist for Jeffco Open Space, oversees a volunteer crew of 35 monitors. Nests are observed weekly during nesting season and notes are taken. Boulder Open Space and Mountain Parks has a similar program, and the Bird Conservancy of the Rockies coordinates volunteer monitors who keep watch on bald eagle nests.
“It’s the equivalent of having two full-time employees, working full days devoted only to monitoring raptors during the nesting season,” Desrosiers said of her Jeffco crew. “By monitoring these nests, we’re making sure that our management actions are not adversely impacting the persistence of natural resources on the landscape.”. Last year the volunteers monitored golden eagle nests in seven far-flung locations, five of which produced seven hatchlings.
An immature bald eagle flies along I-70 near Rifle after feeding on the carcass of a dead elk on Feb. 21, 2022. Bald eagles do tend to be the social media darlings of raptor nation, though. In a widely publicized 2020 affair, a female nesting at Standley Lake was attacked and driven away by another female. The interloper took up with the male of the nest, which at the time was covered 24/7 by an “Eagle Cam” maintained by the city of Westminster.
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