Join us as we track the amazing journey of the broad-winged hawk from space using satellite telemetry technology, and together we’ll trace the movements of this long-distance migrant from Pennsylvania to Central and South America, and back. This study marks the first time a telemetry unit has ever been placed on a juvenile broadwing. Hawk Mountain is grateful to the Pennsylvania Game Commission for its State Wildlife Grant, and support from ATAS International, the East Stroudsburg University Research Grant, Pennsylvania Audubon, and other private donors and supporters on Indiegogo for making this work possible.
http://www.hawkmountain.org/science/broadwing-tracking/page.aspx?id=4456

Hawk Mountain hired Laurie Goodrich as its first full-time research biologist. Today she boasts more than 25 years of service and oversees the Sanctuary’s long-term migration monitoring programs, including the mammoth annual autumn hawk count, and the Sanctuary’s natural history database.

An enthusiastic educator, Laurie also is a skilled interpretive naturalist and helps to train interns and volunteers in raptor identification. In 2010 the board selected her to serve as Director of Education for two years and during this time she spearheaded a rigorous planning process that resulted in the first-ever long-range plan for Hawk Mountain education programming.

Laurie recently launched the new Pennsylvania Farmland Raptors Program, and is the Hawk Mountain liaison for the award-winning Raptor Population Index Project. Her latest focus is on publishing results from her dissertation research and in analyzing long-term datasets on age and sex of raptor migrants.

A long-time volunteer for Big Brothers-Big Sister of Schuylkill County, Laurie enjoys gardening, hiking and bird watching, and resides in Orwigsburg.