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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.”

Our Fraser Valley Bald Eagle Festival is BACK....

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

The Lighthouse Preservation Society Newsletter
The Lighthouse Preservation Society (LPPS) is about to publish the Autumn edition of their Newsletter, and from first glance of the advanced copy, it will be well worth the read! There is a particularly interesting article - featuring eagles of course - based on the notes recorded by West Vancouver wildlife artist and North Shore Eagle Network (NSEN) member, Kathleen McCormick.  As a member of the NSEN, Kathleen visited the two active eagle nests in Lighthouse Park almost everyday since the fall of 2023 watching and recording her observations of the resident eagles and other wildlife that happened by in ...
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Great San Juan Island Bird Tour - Bellingham
Hancock here: Great 7-hour bird tour that revealed both the normal local breeding Tufted Puffin and the largely Alaskan breeding Horned Puffin. After a wonderful boat ride to Smith Island, about 2 hours out, we not just saw about a dozen of the 34 nesting Tufted puffins the Island hosts, but we had one Horned Puffin spend about 40 minutes beside the boat - showing off to an appreciative boat of birders. It was a wonderful day - super boat, two decks, wonderful viewing, fine drinks and a super salmon wrap for lunch. The boat could hold 100 but only ...
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The Extraordinary Salish Sea
Hello everybody, I’ve just posted a new movie on my YouTube site,"The Extraordinary Salish Sea” This movie is both a reflection and celebration of the remarkable inland sea that we live on. The Sea is extraordinary - remarkable for its backdrop of mountains and iconic volcanoes, climates that range from cactus to rainforest, over 400 islands with tidal rips between, sheltered waters, stunning biodiversity both underwater and above, and a rich history of Coast Salish peoples. A homeplace well worth standing up for. Please share the link to this movie with anyone you think might be interested. If you’d like ...
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I have just finished my first 82 pages of the text. Myles Lamont, who has been my closest associate building nests will be adding his contributions, and several of our specialist climbers and HWF directors and keenest supporters, like Mike Seear, Larry Dorosh, and Brian Mitchell who have accompanied me up the trees or building pole nests, and a host of our photographer friends, including Christian Sasse, also a director, will be contributing photos. If any of you have collected particularly interesting screenshots, please send them to us to consider. This will probably be 128 pages of 8.5 x 11 ...
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Clean Air Alliance Rally - Oct 29-23
Hancock here:  Oct 29 - Three eagle nests & BC's most biologically productive and diverse shoreline get an obscene threat Biofuel Plant Concerns by David Hancock - A Note to the Prime Minister Re Andion Biofuel Facility Proposed for Semiahmoo First Nation Land near Active Eagle Nesting Territory A Specific Biological Perspective:  “The Semiahmoo lands hold three active bald eagle nests but are key to supporting over 150 nesting pairs in the adjacent few cities and over 25,000 northern breeding eagles who spend their fall & winter months here.” This Semiahmoo region is the center of the most important biological ...
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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 all learn where our eagles come from and go to. Each Bald Eagle Tracker costs $3000 and a Peregrine Falcon Tracker costs about $2000. They can last 3 years with only a $300 additional annual phone charge. PLEASE DONATE Please Fund a tracker so we can follow these magnificent birds. Thanks, David Hancock PS: If a sponsor wishes to come with us on a day’s trapping perhaps we can arrange a day. Photo of TERF26 courtesy of ECeaglevideo.

    $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

LETS MAKE THE WORLD A BETTER PLACE

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.