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​ABOUT OSPREY SOLUTIONS

​Osprey Solutions, LLC is a Seattle-based wildlife consulting firm whose mission is to provide a full range of Osprey nest management services to industry and government. Building on 35 years of technical, field research and management experience, our staff has developed state-of-the-art, cost-effective procedures and products to evaluate and eliminate negative human-wildlife interactions associated with Osprey use of infrastructure for nesting.​

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For more than 30 years, Jim Kaiser conducted research as a federal wildlife biologist (USFWS-Patuxent / USGS-BRD) and private consultant primarily involving nesting Osprey and wintering bald eagle populations in the Pacific Northwest. Jim has considerable experience conducting Osprey-contaminant investigations and providing assistance to electric utility and cell tower companies seeking to identify and solve raptor-caused outages and raptor electrocutions. Jim is an expert on Osprey nesting behavior and nest management issues. He co-authored the chapter: "Perching, Roosting and Nesting of Birds on Power Line Structures" in the book Suggested Practices for Avian Protection on Power Lines: State of the Art in 2006. He has co-authored over 20 peer-reviewed publications. 

Jim has a professional network of Federal and State biologists, raptor research scientists and conservation leaders involved in the protecting, studying and managing raptors. He founded Osprey Solutions, LLC in February 2011 to continue serving a growing and diverse clientele throughout the United States and Canada.