When I was a young girl I didn’t think much about how birds sleep. I just assumed they went to their nest each night and slept like we do. It […]

Anne Hay volunteers for the Buffalo Bill Center of the West in Cody Wyoming, she works with the Draper Museum Raptor Experience as both a "mobile perch" and a blogger.
by Anne Hay
When I was a young girl I didn’t think much about how birds sleep. I just assumed they went to their nest each night and slept like we do. It […]
by Anne Hay
Most people who know me soon learn that falcons, especially Peregrine Falcons, are one of my favorite birds. Not only are they beautiful raptors, with their stream-lined bodies and long […]
by Anne Hay
For many people owls are a favorite bird, with Short-eared Owls being just one of more than 200 species worldwide. The smallest, the Elf Owl, resides in the south western […]
by Anne Hay
If I had eyelids like a bird, I wouldn’t have to worry about the Wyoming wind. Raptors and other birds not only have two eyelids, they have a third eyelid […]
by Anne Hay
The name “nighthawk” causes some confusion as it suggests that this might be a true hawk. This bird, however, is not even related to the hawk family. The nighthawk received its […]
by Anne Hay
When I think of the birds in our Draper Museum Raptor Experience education program and the golden eagles in our Draper Natural History Museum’s Bighorn Basin Golden Eagle Ecology research […]