Hancock Wildlife Foundation

Hancock Wildlife Foundation 
Live Streaming Eagle Nest Camera
Discussion Forums and Content Managed Sites

In late 2005, David Hancock, a long-time client of Pacific Data Capture, contacted us about the possibility of hooking a camera in an eagle's nest on Hornby Island, near Vancouver Island, to the internet. The rest, as they say, is history.

The simple phone call that day resulted in the creation of what became the largest, longest streaming video event in the history of the internet, eclipsing even the visit of the Pope the previous Summer. Looking back from today the 40,000+ viewers for over 4 months continuously is still an incredible amount of streaming video.

With all those "eagleholics" watching, the foundation was formed and Pacific Data Capture's Richard Pitt immediately put together a whole web site geared toward the creation of content by members - discussion forums, active content archives for photos, sound and video, and story/news submission. Today the HWF site is a key area for conservation and discussion of all manner of wildlife including cameras from around the world.