These are largely run by volunteers, on very few resources. Cams go up and down depending on what they can manage...but some years their various osprey, buzzard, and other raptor nest cams have been jaw droppers. Remember, Estonia time zone is UTC +2. If you check cams during North America day you mostly get dark. :^>
Pennslyvania peregrine falcon cam (nesting on a state office building in downtown Harrisburg!)
I have many many others, but those are special. Partly because I remember the '70s and '80s in PA, and how we watched the plummeting of raptor populations with a sick sense of doom.
The man on that second link/page is Art McMorris, a wildlife biologist more responsible than anyone on earth for bringing PA peregrines back from the edge of extinction.
Art was still climbing bridges, towers, and buildings to do peregrine banding/scrape checking and maintenance/etc. into his 70s. I think he retired a few years ago though.
At present it doesn't include osprey/kalakotkas but I assume that's because the project isn't tracking/tending any osprey nests.
For each kind of bird shown in the upper left, you can click the down-arrow to see the individual banded/tracked birds. You can use the animation to watch them move across the world in their amazing annual sojourns.
The role of the Baltic nations in protecting Old World nesting and migrating birds is so evident from that map, and my respect for those projects goes exponential given how very little they have by way of support.
For example, this fellow, Urmas Sellis, was instrumental in installing and maintaining many Estonian and iirc some of the Latvian osprey, buzzard, eagle, and stork cams. One guy, a truck, ladders, and a ton of expertise and love of these birds.
I have always thought--thanks to my early PA experiences with conservation--that this stuff should be done on the local, rooted level, just as food should be grown that way. As soon as globalist/big money gets involved, it all turns into PR and slick videos and big-concept abstractions
Oh yeah, and engineered panic around "bird flu" to prop up Pharma profits.
The other treasure trove I think you already know (Cornell bird cams)...but they are now carrying one of my perennial favorites: Ospreys In A Parking Lot Watching The Trains Go By!
Oh, I am so doomed.
Here are my two annual time sinks (out of many, these are the most watched).
Estonian wildlife cams
https://www.looduskalender.ee/n/en
These are largely run by volunteers, on very few resources. Cams go up and down depending on what they can manage...but some years their various osprey, buzzard, and other raptor nest cams have been jaw droppers. Remember, Estonia time zone is UTC +2. If you check cams during North America day you mostly get dark. :^>
Pennslyvania peregrine falcon cam (nesting on a state office building in downtown Harrisburg!)
https://www.pa.gov/agencies/dep/residents/environmental-education/pa-falcon-cam.html
I have many many others, but those are special. Partly because I remember the '70s and '80s in PA, and how we watched the plummeting of raptor populations with a sick sense of doom.
The man on that second link/page is Art McMorris, a wildlife biologist more responsible than anyone on earth for bringing PA peregrines back from the edge of extinction.
Art was still climbing bridges, towers, and buildings to do peregrine banding/scrape checking and maintenance/etc. into his 70s. I think he retired a few years ago though.
Thanks, Charlie.
Oh wow! This is a treasure trove. Fantastic to see all those cameras in Estonia, I will be checking in on them during the spring.
Nothing on Pennsylvania peregrine cam when I looked just now, but a fine beast on this one in London https://youtu.be/QhUlfWwcA6U
Thanks so much!
Sweet sleepy fluffer! Thank you.
Charlie, one of the amazing things connected to the Looduskalender project is this mapping project.
https://birdmap.5dvision.ee/EN/
At present it doesn't include osprey/kalakotkas but I assume that's because the project isn't tracking/tending any osprey nests.
For each kind of bird shown in the upper left, you can click the down-arrow to see the individual banded/tracked birds. You can use the animation to watch them move across the world in their amazing annual sojourns.
The role of the Baltic nations in protecting Old World nesting and migrating birds is so evident from that map, and my respect for those projects goes exponential given how very little they have by way of support.
For example, this fellow, Urmas Sellis, was instrumental in installing and maintaining many Estonian and iirc some of the Latvian osprey, buzzard, eagle, and stork cams. One guy, a truck, ladders, and a ton of expertise and love of these birds.
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Urmas-Sellis-2
I have always thought--thanks to my early PA experiences with conservation--that this stuff should be done on the local, rooted level, just as food should be grown that way. As soon as globalist/big money gets involved, it all turns into PR and slick videos and big-concept abstractions
Oh yeah, and engineered panic around "bird flu" to prop up Pharma profits.
The other treasure trove I think you already know (Cornell bird cams)...but they are now carrying one of my perennial favorites: Ospreys In A Parking Lot Watching The Trains Go By!
https://www.allaboutbirds.org/cams/hellgate-ospreys/
Thanks for sharing all these links.
Wait. There are live streams of birdies? And I didn't know? Going now.