Data are requested as soon as possible following the end of each migration season. Your editors' deadlines are March 15 for fall data and October 15 for the spring. Please help them meet their deadlines so that Hawk Migration Studies can be published without delay. These data have been gathered at significant cost to and effort by those watchsite coordinators, who have certain proprietary interests in the data they produce.
Watchsite coordinators retain the right to publish the data they have collected.
To the extent that the data have been published in the Journal of Hawk Migration Studies, those data are further protected by copyright law. The purpose for the collection and central storage of these data is to facilitate population monitoring and research on migratory raptors. To further that purpose, conservation agencies, universities, organizations and individuals are encouraged to make use of the data under the requirements outlined below. The collection is maintained at a central library by a data curator appointed by the Hawk Mountain Sanctuary.