Welcome to the Butte Valley Swainson’s Hawk Project homepage.  This project is designed to examine the ecology and movements of Swainson’s Hawks, and is a project of the University of Nevada, Reno.  This study is being conducted by Dr. Michael Collopy and his graduate student, Chris Briggs.

This website will explain our research, its goals and some of our preliminary results.  Please feel free to contact us if you have any questions about our research or Swainson’s Hawks in general.

If you have found a color banded goldfnch, click here. Please report all other bands to the USGS Bird Banding Lab.

If you would like to make a tax-deductible donation to the project, please click below.