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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.”

2024 Fraser Valley Bald Eagle Festival Cancelled

Tracking Bald Eagles

Nest Mitigation

Streaming Cams

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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Donate Now

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

Calgary Cranes to Louisiana
Whooping Cranes from Calgary Zoo head to Louisiana ...
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Harrison Mills eagles
We had a bit of drama at the Harrison Mills nest this morning - but it all ended well, so please keep reading!  As you may have seen from the previous story, there are lots of eagles in the area - but there appears to be an invisible line around the nest that other eagles are advised not to cross.  There was a handsome adult eagle perched in a tree not that far from the nest - and after a little while, we could see two white heads approaching rapidly - and I think Mrs Honeycomb (the name given the ...
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Eagles at Harrison Mills, captured by Heather Lewis
Thousands of eagles (and people) are gathering at Harrison Mills for the annual Fraser Valley Bald Eagle Festival November 18 and 19, 2017 (details here) - but if you can't get to BC this year - check out our Harrison Mills webcams, Heather Lewis and Sue Deschene got these great pictures. You can visit these and our other cams here - https://hancockwildlife.org/live-cams/.  Enjoy! ...
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photo courtesy of Linda Tapler
The Orphaned Wildlife Rehabilitation Society (O.W.L.) released this handsome young eagle in conjunction with the Fraser Valley Bald Eagle Festival happening this weekend at Harrison Mills, British Columbia.  He or she is about 9 months old - and seems very happy to be flying free! The closeup is courtesy of Linda Tapler and the view of the eagle heading off in search of salmon is from a video by Bob Van Der Vliet - thank you both! ...
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Mrs Honeycomb Visits Her Nest
The female eagle at the Harrison Mills bald eagle cam nest, known as Mrs. Honeycomb, posed for the camera beside her nest on November 11th - and forum member IrishEyes got this lovely image of her.  You can watch the Harrison Mills cams - and our other cams - here: https://hancockwildlife.org/live-cams/ - and perhaps you'll see some lovely closeups too! ...
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Volunteers

Campaigns

BETA eagles banded

BETA Eagles tracked

Meet The Team

Board of Directors

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Our Volunteers



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!

Thank you!

Our Research Campaigns

  1. Photo of TERF26/Annie just after release, courtesy of ECeaglevideo, August 1. 2022

    Fund A Tracker

    How do our 35,000 to 50,000 Northern breeding eagles find their way down to the Vancouver area to winter here? Equally important, but a very different story, what routes do the 1000 breeding pairs of south west breeding BC eagles use to fly up North to find the early spawned-out salmon runs before the freeze-up drives them back south? We now know that eaglets who have only been flying for two weeks can get to Alaska in 2 or 3 days — incredible! Help us fund a Tracker so you can follow them on our WEB site and we can…

    $400.00 donated
  2. Esplanade Nest

    Esplanade Nest Refurbishment

    These donations go directly towards the refurbishment of the Esplanade nest. The nest, built in 2014, needs rebranching, which will require a bucket truck.

    $1,079.00 donated of $3,500.00 goal
  3. 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.

    $8,298.00 donated
  4. Eagle Cams/Repairs

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

    $3,052.00 donated of $10,000.00 goal
  5. General Fund

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

    $4,755.00 donated of $15,000.00 goal
  6. BETA Program

    Live, real-time tracking of Eagles is now a reality – as of July 2022, 12 of our tagged eagles are checking in. Please help us expand the program and learn more!

    $2,500.00 donated of $20,000.00 goal
Join Us

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There are many ways you can help us at the Hancock Wildlife Foundation

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Our Partners and Supporters

The Hancock Wildlife Foundation wishes to acknowledge the very generous bequest of Mr. Jack McRae, a long-time White Rock resident and supporter of wildlife and the natural world. These funds were provided through the support of the White Rock and Surrey Naturalists Society and will be used to further expand our Bald Eagle Tracking Alliance study of migrations and movements of Bald Eagles across the Pacific Northwest.