Twin Cities Metro Osprey Watch

Please report new Osprey nests to Vanessa Greene at Osprey.mn@gmail.com Volunteer to monitor a nest!

Friday, July 11, 2025

Almost!

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 Some  fun videos…..this is one of the first chicks to hatch in the metro and he is very close to fledging. Still  needs to get a little mor...
Wednesday, July 9, 2025

Losses and thanks!

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The past week has been trying….we have found three chicks dead on the ground. The first two may have blown out in storms, and the most recen...
Sunday, June 29, 2025

After the storm….

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  We had a wild night here in Minnesota, with a big storm going thru in the wee hours of the morning. I have been working so hard to get chi...

Red flag….

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 News about the collapse of an osprey colony on the east coast of Virginia….very troubling. Osprey are an indicator species , at the top of ...
Thursday, June 26, 2025

June 18 at the Arboretum cam nest…saying goodbye ….

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  Saying goodbye…..the female brooded the dead chick a lot in the past 24 hours and then took the body away this morning…..if you zoom in on...

The aftermath….june 17 at the Arb cam nest

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  The aftermath at the Arb cam osprey nest….mom continued to brood the deceased chick for many hours. But before midnight she gave up, and s...

June 16 at the Arb

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 I  believe the Arb chick has perished. I just watched mom back up to the edge of the nest at just after 8 pm and the chick is motionless. S...
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Vanessa Greene
I started the Twin Cities Metro Osprey Watch program in 2008 after 15 years of working on the Twin Cites Osprey Reintroduction. I am monitoring all nests in the metro area, training and supervising volunteers who assist with this fieldwork and writing annual reports documenting data collected. We are looking at a variety of areas of research including an accurate productivity study, investigating behaviors such as extra pair copulation and mate fidelity, recruitement of young birds into the breeding population, establishment of new territories, age of first breeding, longevity of pair bonds, movement between nesting territories, etc. I have recieved no financial support, other than donations from supporters of the project, and am driven by passion and a committment to the wellbeing and survival of this species of Raptor. I always need help, so contact me if you would like to become involved with the monitoring or have questions about Ospreys. See full profile for list of publications.
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