Since the year 2000, the Audubon Society has been involved with the site shown here called Hawk Watch. Located at Waggoner’s Gap along the Kittatinny Ridge just north of the town Carlisle in south-central Pennsylvania, Hawk Watch has a legacy of being a major corridor for thousands of hawks, eagles, and falcons who traverse across the area in the fall. The information regarding bird migration — which has been amassed here for nearly two decades by the Audubon Society — is part of their mission to nurture and protect wild birds in this country. They collect scientific data to promote this aim. We can thank the Audubon Society for supporting legislation such as the Migratory Bird Treaty Act, signed by President Wilson in 1918, which to this day is one of the strongest laws protecting wild birds.
