The Golden Eagle Highway: Tracking Eagles Captured Along Montana’s Rocky Mountain Front

Join us for our general meeting featuring Rob Domenech, Executive Director of the Raptor View Research Institute (RVRI), who will present his long-term research on Golden Eagles. He will discuss heavy metal analysis in blood samples, wing-tagging results, and satellite telemetry tracking of their movements, along with photos and notable stories of tracked eagles.

Domenech graduated from the University of Montana in 2002 in Wildlife Biology, where he had
focused his research on raptors. Prior to finishing his studies, he had travelled throughout
western Montana for much of the 1990s, scouting for suitable sites to establish the first fall
raptor migration ridgeline banding study in Montana. In 2004 he founded RVRI to facilitate his
continuing research on raptors and their migration.

Domenech is one of the country’s leading authorities on Golden Eagle and Osprey ecology. His
work includes standardized migration counts, satellite telemetry, wing-tagging and color-
banding, eco-toxicology studies, and more. RVRI’s data have contributed to over a dozen
publications in top-tier scientific journals. When not in the field, you can find Rob walking his
two dogs, rescuing raptors for Wild Skies Raptor Rehab, and practicing jujutsu.

The meeting will take place Monday, February 10th. Our meetings are available both in person and virtually. For those attending the meeting in person on February 10th, we’ll meet in Room 26 of the Gateway Community Center at 7pm. This room is located on the east side of the building along Glenwood Drive. Look for our banner outside. If you want to join virtually email info@flatheadaudubon.org.