When Education Takes Flight
The promise of molding a graduate program in raptor biology is what drew current program director Marc Bechard to Boise State in 1983.
Three decades on, the program is thriving. What started as a project initially focused largely on captive breeding has expanded to include the study of gyrfalcons in Alaska, golden eagles in the Owhyee Mountains, snowy owls in Massachusetts, vultures in Africa and more.
In May 2017, a Boise State vulture research team including Bechard and Greg Kaltenecker, executive director of the Intermountain Bird Observatory, traveled to Mozambique's Gorongosa National Park to trap vultures and attach GPS transmitters.
Read more about Boise State raptor research on Campus Update