The Draper Museum Raptor Experience

The Draper Museum Raptor Experience is an exciting live raptor education program at the Draper Natural History Museum in Cody, Wyoming. The Draper is one of five museums at the Buffalo Bill Center of the West, which embraces the Spirit of the American West. What better way to celebrate the wildness of this wonderful area than by sharing some of its most spectacular wild animals with our guests. Visitors to the Center have the unique opportunity to get an up close and personal view of some of Wyoming’s most recognized predators – the birds of prey!

Brandon and Suli
June 11, 2012

Four score and seven years ago, we chose to go to the moon and I had a dream. (There were birds in it and I was in my underwear)

By Sarah the Intern I knew this day would come…kind of like how you know you’re going to have high blood pressure…

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June 4, 2012

A bird in the hand is worth two Facebook posts (at least at first)

By Sarah the Intern It wasn’t until the second day, when Melissa let us hold Teasdale the great horned owl, that it…

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May 31, 2012

Passing the torch of blogging to interns

Okay, in case you hadn’t noticed, I’ve been a bit busy lately. Since my last post we had our International Migratory Bird…

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Great Blue Heron in Oklahoma (detail)
May 6, 2012

Catching up after vacation

I managed to squeeze in a quick vacation before we really get under way with the summer programs. Unfortunately, I really didn’t…

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April 19, 2012

So much to do, so little time…

That about sums it up. Not only are we in the full swing of training for summer, but I decided that “the…

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Suli, Our Turkey Vulture, perched with open wings.
April 5, 2012

Flying for Real, training season

Well, the first of April has come and gone and we here at the Draper Museum Raptor Experience are officially in the…

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