A recording of a presentation hosted by Delaware-Otsego Audubon Society (DOAS) at our 57th Charter Dinner on Friday, October 17, 2025 with keynote speaker Julie Brown, Raptor Migration and Programs Director at the Hawk Migration Association (HMA).

The program features 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.

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.