We’ve been keeping up with the latest developments on COVID-19 and consulting with colleagues in the medical and research communities. We’ve also watched the dominoes fall through travel bans, cancellations of gatherings and sporting events, suspension of classes at schools and universities, and work-at-home transitions among workplaces.It is with great reluctance and regret that we’ve decided to cancel the spring survey for the first time since its inception in 1979. We cannot justify placing our biologists at risk for the sake of the 50-60 falcons we could capture. The long-term nature of our studies intentionally allows for such temporal interruptions with little to no impact on the integrity of our overall data set. Although severe weather and other events (i.e; the 2001 South Padre bridge outage) have affected results, we’ve been fortunate since the survey’s establishment in 1977 to never fail in conducting one. Accordingly, we are well situated to absorb this setback and continue the work this fall.