Borrego Springs Hawk Watch Documentary
Migrating to you in 2025
Revered raptors, dedicated citizen scientists, and a fragile desert environment, HAWK WATCH the film brings them all together.
Watch as a passionate group works tirelessly to perpetuate their legacy: the support of the Swainson’s Hawk migration. This local team strives to inspire a new generation of “Hawksters” to continue the vital task of monitoring and protecting the migration through California. But, aging, human-driven climate change, business development, and even Mother Nature create obstacles that threaten it all.
HAWK WATCH has been in production since early 2023. In addition to filming two full seasons of hawk migration through Borrego Springs, California, the cast and crew traveled to Veracruz, Mexico, Antelope Valley, California, and Corpus Christi, Texas to capture on film the incredible spectacle of avian migration and nesting. This documentary showcases the intense beauty and sense of awe inspired by the annual hawk migration, and the efforts that the local Hawksters are attempting to keep it alive.
HAWK WATCH visually depicts the perilous existence of raptors during their 20,000 mile journey, and the power of individuals to try to make a difference for their world.
