Hawk Mountain

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The view from Hawk Mountain.

Hawk Mountain is a mountain ridge, part of the Appalachian Mountains, located in central-eastern Pennsylvania near Reading and Allentown. It is a part of the Blue Mountain Ridge. It is primarily known as home to the Hawk Mountain Sanctuary, but the mountain is also home to the Hawk Mountain Scout Reservation (a Boy Scout camp) and a Civil Air Patrol Search and Rescue training facility. Located along the Appalachian flyway, the Sanctuary is a prime location for the viewing of migrating raptors with an average of 20,000 hawks, eagles and falcons passing the lookouts every year. The birds are identified and counted by staff and volunteers to produce annual counts of migrating raptors that represent the world's longest record of raptor populations. These counts have provided conservationists with valuable information on changes in raptor numbers in North America.

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