Hawk Mountain Sanctuary near Kempton has opened its satellite-tracking data for migrating turkey vultures to the public at its website,
www.hawkmountain.org, and at Science Buddies,
www.sciencebuddies.org, a website that offers free science-fair project ideas, answers, and tools for students.
The new education venture dates to a 2009 NSF-sponsored workshop hosted by Hawk Mountain at its Acopian Center for Conservation Learning, at which more than 40 raptor-migration specialists from nine countries fashioned a better way to share their satellite-tracking data.
Hawk Mountain has been tracking turkey vultures with small satellite-based GPS units since 2003, and today continues to follow the movements of vultures tagged in Pennsylvania, California, western Canada and central Argentina.
