America’s Arctic: Colville River Raptors
… ContinueThe Colville River Special Area is one of five unique regions designated by the Bureau of Land Management within the National Petroleum Reserve–Alaska (NPR-A). Internationally recognized for its extraordinary raptor populations, it hosts one of the highest densities of nesting birds of prey in the circumpolar Arctic — including the iconic Arctic Peregrine Falcon, Gyrfalcon, and Rough-legged Hawk.
In the summer of 2024, a team from the Cornell Lab of Ornithology set out on an expedition to explore and document this remote and rugged landscape and the birds