For the first time in what seems like forever the wind wasn’t blowing yesterday! That’s often something special to celebrate in Wyoming. When you couple that with a relatively warm […]
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!
Turkey Vulture 101
There is always a challenge of some sort when working with animals. Whether you are trying to teach an old dog new tricks, get a tiger to volunteer its tail […]
Update time! Healing a peregrine falcon wrist
Well, as part of my resolution to be better about blogging, this is my second post in a week. Woohoo! Not a whole lot has happened over the weekend so […]
Seriously? It’s been a month? Wait… almost two!
What can I say? Apparently I’m not very good at blogging. I thought it would be so easy to sit down at least once a week and type up a […]
Super Model Time for our avian stars!
The birds have had some great press recently which has made them even more popular at the Center. We have established a steady schedule of times the birds will be […]
The first outreach program for our raptors
Today was a big day for us! The birds had their first outreach program outside the Center! To date they’ve been seen by over 4,700 people, but it has always […]