Monitoring Breeding Northern Goshawks

 

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The northern goshawk has been struggling in the Northeast.  There are plenty of factors that have aided in the decline of this iconic species in the East, such as habitat loss, global warming, the spread of fishers in the region, West Nile Virus, etc…  Our focus is to monitor the population and assess the health of our birds in northern New York State.