I read with interest the posting about the Osprey Watch program at Wm and Mary College in Virginia. We have a local organization with a similar name “Twin Cities Metro Osprey Watch” which is dedicated to monitoring all nests in the 8 county metro area surrounding Minneapolis and St Paul. We are a growing group of passionate people who are interested in learning more about this magnificent raptor, monitoring the population expansion, and studying their productivity and behaviors! We share the concerns of the worldwide project regarding contaminants, climate change and fish depletion and therefore we are monitoring ALL known nests for an accurate productivity study as well as behavioral studies. Ospreys are an indicator species that indicate much about the environmental health of our community and therefore we believe it is important to continue this local study which began in 1984. (Three Rivers Park District announced in January that they were reducing their research and banding to just 1/3 of the nests in the metro). We always need help monitoring all the nests and if you are interested please contact us. We also need the public’s help in reporting new nests to us. Contact us at osprey...@att.net. You can find us on Facebook now too! https://www.facebook.com/pages/Twin-Cities-Metro-Osprey-Watch/218968924786696?ref=ts
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