April Lunch & Learn: Tracking Montana's Osprey
2024-04-17 12:00 - 13:30 (America/New_York)
Join us for our April Lunch & Learn Virtual Presentation Series where we’ll be welcoming Rob Domenech, executive director of Raptor View Research Institute, discussing Tracking Montana’s Osprey.
This presentation will include a brief history of the Montana Osprey Project, when it
started and why, blood heavy metals analysis (i.e., Mercury levels) in Osprey sampled along the
Upper Clark Fork River Superfund Complex; a summary of color band encounters, and an
overview of our satellite telemetry tracks of Osprey tagged along the Bitterroot River – with a
few standout stories of satellite-tracked individuals.
Rob Domenech, executive director of Raptor View Research Institute (RVRI),
graduated from the University of Montana in 2002 with a Wildlife Biology degree. He worked
throughout western Montana for much of the 1990s, scouting for suitable sites to establish the
first fall raptor migration ridgeline banding study in Montana. He founded RVRI in 2004 to
continue and better facilitate his raptor research and migration studies. Domenech is one of the
country's leading authorities on Golden Eagle and Osprey ecology. His work includes
standardized migration counts, satellite telemetry, wing-tagging and color-banding, eco-
toxicology studies, and more. RVRI's data have contributed to over a dozen publications in top-
tier scientific journals. When not in the field, you can find Rob promoting awareness of raptor
ecology and related conservation challenges to youth and community groups.
This program is FREE and open to all. Registration is required, please click the link below to register.
https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZclf-mhpjwsHtL8WRp5yrzFdArZVZQsn56z
For those not able to join via Zoom, we will livestream the program on our HMANA Facebook page as well.
