We Count! Raptor Migration Monitoring in the Americas

On Friday, October 17 at 7:30 p.m., at the 57th Annual Charter Dinner, Delaware-Otsego Audubon Society will welcome keynote speaker Julie Brown, Raptor Migration and Programs Director at the Hawk Migration Association (HMA). This program will be a part of our in-person Charter Dinner event at the 6th Ward Athletic Club Banquet Room, but anyone may attend on Zoom free of charge. Due to space limitations at the facilities this year, in person attendance for the program portion will not be possible. To register for the program only via Zoom, please visit this link: https://tinyurl.com/2f3cmt7c

For those interested in attending the Charter Dinner in person, you must register separately. Please visit this page for more information and to purchase tickets: https://doas.us/2025-charter-dinner .

Our Charter Dinner Raffle is also available with a “flock” of bird-themed prizes. Tickets for the Charter raffle are available online and at the Open House at the DOAS Sanctuary on October 4. Charter raffle winners do not need to be present at the dinner. Learn more about our Charter raffle here: https://doas.us/2025-dinner-raffle/ .

Program Information

Raptor Migration and Programs Director for the Hawk Migration Association (HMA), Julie Brown, will speak about HMA’s work and the continental network of hawk watching sites, why collecting spring and fall migration data is important and what we’ve learned about raptor movements and populations. She’ll dive into migration data collected at Franklin Mountain and across the continent and discuss what it’s showing us about the health of raptor populations.

About the Presenter 

Julie Brown is the Raptor Migration and Programs Director at the Hawk Migration Association. Before joining HMA in 2009, she migrated throughout the US and tropics working as a field biologist primarily with raptors, focusing on human impact studies, migration research and behavioral studies. She received her BS in Wildlife Ecology from the University of Maine and received her MS in Conservation Biology from Antioch University New England, where she studied Peregrine Falcon migration in Costa Rica for her thesis. She lives in New Hampshire with her husband, whom she met hawkwatching, and her two bird-loving children, a flock of chickens, her dog and lots of fruit trees. She is a volunteer counter at the Pack Monadnock Raptor Migration Observatory each fall.