Established by DAVID HANCOCK in 2006 to broaden his at that time more than 60 years of lecturing and teaching about wildlife and conservation, especially bald eagles, to include the web, the Foundation’s mandate is to use the Internet in general and live streaming wildlife video in particular to promote the conservation of wildlife and its habitats through science, education, and stewardship. In David’s words, “Our first live eagle nest cams reached and taught more people in a 4 month period than I had in all my years of lectures combined. This is the way of the future.”

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Our Mission

The mission of the Hancock Wildlife Foundation is to promote the conservation of wildlife and its habitats through science, education, and stewardship.

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Our Projects

The Hancock Wildlife Foundation currently has numerous open projects that are helping to revitalize birds both in our own area and world wide. See what we have been up to on Our Projects page.

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Hancock Wildlife relies heavily on donations from our viewers. Find out how you can help keep our cams alive and running for years to come.

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Latest News

Fraser Valley Bald Eagle Festival – Nov 16-17, 2019

Hancock here: A backgrounder on our Bald Eagles of the Fraser Valley Vancouver has Two Distinct Bald Eagle Populations: - November tells the tale - Southern British Columbia, particularly our lower Fraser River Valley, has two very distinct populations of bald eagles. First, we have our very successful breeders who have 19 nests in the City of Vancouver, more than 80 nests in the City of Delta, 43 in Surrey , and I have identified over 480 nesting territories in the valley but expect there are well over 550 pairs nesting between Vancouver and Hope. For those of you ...
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November 4, 2019 / Hancock Here, News

Hancock Here: Eagle Festival Update Nov 3, 2019

The Northern Snow Birds have Started to Gather at the Chehalis! Eagle Festival Alert: the northern migrants, our 35,000 bald eagle visitors, are on their way! Both the last two Saturdays I did a count on the Harrison – Chehalis Rivers and between 500 and 550 eagles had already arrived. With the cold weather north of us I expect we could see 200 to 500 per day arriving throughout November and December. Now the southern challenge is will our reduced spawning fish stocks be able to feed them. The key is about 35,000 eagle migrants are on their way south ...
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November 4, 2019 / Hancock Here, News

Hancock Here: D2 Thanks

Hi All: and I mean all. What a wonderful afternoon and evening getting the D2 nest cam bowl cleaned, several annoying twigs removed, the huge dead limbs removed, and all the details requested attended to. First, a great thanks for Stan Pennors of Cambium Tree Solutions, who did an incredible job in removing all the dangerous dead limbs that overhung the nest, changed the two very dirty CAM bowls, and answered directly the many phone calls from you mods to make sure the nest CAMS are performing to capacity. And then of course there are you, our mods, who knew ...
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August 30, 2019 / Hancock Here, News

Eagle Extravaganza – June 2nd

Eagle Extravaganza Sunday, June 2nd, 2:00 pm - 4:00 pm Kwomais Park Hosted by OPBC and the Hancock Wildlife Foundation. BALD EAGLES ON THE BC COAST Join resident eagle biologist David Hancock to learn about bald eagles and what we need to do to protect them and the trees that they need for nesting. Finish by looking for these majestic birds fishing in the ocean, soaring high above the parks and nesting in nearby trees. Sunday, June 2, 2 pm - 4 pm Sanford Hall at Kwomais Point Park 1367 - 128 Street, Surrey Hosted by Ocean Park Beautification Committee ...
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May 29, 2019 / Eagle, Hancock Here, News

Toad People; Premiere Screening this Thursday at Museum of Vancouver as part of DOXA Documentary Film Festival.

DOXA Documentary Film Festival Screening at Museum of Vancouver. What does it take to save a species? Join us for the Vancouver premiere of Isabelle Groc and Mike McKinlay’s Toad People (Canada, 2017, 76 mins). Produced by local grassroots environmental organization, Wilderness Committee. Every summer, thousands of fingernail-sized Western toads cover a rural road in the community of Ryder Lake in Chilliwack, British Columbia. When the toadlets migrate from their breeding ground in the wetlands into the forest, few make it to the other side of the road. Western toads, like other amphibians in BC, are struggling because of habitat ...
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May 6, 2019 / Bird, Environment, News

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2018 Online Volunteers

The image (clicks bigger) shows the avatars of more than 40 of the Hancock Wildlife Foundation’s online volunteers who run our forum, control our cameras, post observations about the activities on the cameras at our four eagle nests and on other wildlife cameras across North America and around the world, and post observations and stunning photographs of eagles and other wildlife they observe live and in person.

There are volunteers from at least 4 countries, and from a number of Canadian provinces and US states. Several of our cam controllers (usually called “zoomers”) are from the areas near our cams – but others come from a variety of places including Alberta, Nova Scotia, Washington, Oregon, Arkansas, Florida, Pennsylvania, Maine – and England (the country). The rest of our forum volunteers are equally spread out; most are in North America – but we do appreciate having observers in other parts of the world who can watch what happens on the cams in the middle of our night.

Our online volunteers make it possible for us to have a forum with reports on the activities at roughly 40 eagle nests with cams, more than 20 eagle nests without cameras in BC, a number of osprey nests, some owl nests, a cam watching Laysan Albatross in Hawaii, pandas in several zoos, sea eagles in Australia, black eagles in South Africa – and a whole lot more!

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Adopt a Nest

Adopt your favourite HWF Nest & Family for the entire nesting season. Your Nest Adoption will assist with the cost of the cams, maintenance and tech support that is required all year long as well as support the mission and mandate of HWF through ongoing education and activities that promote the conservation of wildlife.

$1,500.00 donated

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Eagle Cams/Repairs

Keeping our cams running on our nests is an ongoing activity, with maintenance and repairs happening year around.

$404.00 donated of $10,000.00 goal

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General Fund

This helps with the expenses that come with running the Hancock Wildlife Foundation year round.

$2,425.00 donated of $15,000.00 goal

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BETA Program

Live, realtime tracking of Eagles is now a reality, help us to make this a bigger success in 2018.

$2,500.00 donated of $20,000.00 goal

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