Hawk Mountain Sanctuary will launch its 2008 Autumn Lecture Series on Saturday, Sept. 13 when Dr. Ernesto Ruelas Inzunza shares first-hand accounts, photos and future plans for the world-famous, million-raptor watchsite in Veracruz, Mexico.The lecture, “Counting a Million Hawks,” is free and open to the public, and will take place at 6 p.m. in the “Wings of Wonder Gallery” at the Hawk Mountain Visitor Center. The lecture series is designed to share natural history insights as well as the latest in scientific wildlife research in an informative and entertaining format.
Following a four-month conservation science internship at Hawk Mountain in 1991, Ruelas-Inzunza launched the River of Raptors observation site in Veracruz, Mexico. There in 1992, he and colleagues reported the largest hawk migration in the world. Migrating hawks avoid flying over water bodies, funneling from North America through Mexico, creaing a ‘migration bottleneck.’ At River of Raptors, 1 million hawks pour overhead in steady streams
