Twin Cities Metro Osprey Watch

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

Monday, June 1, 2020

Better days....

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Well as you all know, this place I live in has been thru some very trying times in the last week. It is a pretty dark time and sometimes mo...
Monday, May 25, 2020

Drags....gnats!

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I have been observing a lot of intense headshaking in the last few days on many nests around the metro, which is a sign of gnats ( black ...
Thursday, May 21, 2020

Hatching! And a thanks!

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Well, once again I have been remiss in writing up some posts for you all. What’s my excuse? Field work! So much to do, and some really dif...
Wednesday, May 6, 2020

Arb cam fixed...three eggs!

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The Arboretum Osprey Cam was finally fixed! Egg number two was laid on 4/29 and the third egg was laid sometime while the cam was down, prob...
Sunday, April 26, 2020

First egg at Arb

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The first egg has been laid today at the U of M Arboretum cam nest! I knew it was coming! They usually lay eggs 2-3 days apart so watch for ...

Arboretum Osprey Cam

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Just a quick update to let you know that the Arboretum Osprey Cam is up and running. I first saw birds on the nest in person about a week ...
Thursday, April 23, 2020

Weird spring...

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It’s been a weird spring. Our first ospreys arrived in early April, right on schedule. But then the arrivals seemed to slow down and we st...
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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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