Things were getting pretty exciting around here. The mews for our Draper Museum Raptor Experience actually looked like a building, the electrical and plumbing were starting to go in, and […]
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!
Melissa is in heaven! A turkey vulture for our program
The bird I have wanted the most for this program is one that few people appreciate—the Turkey Vulture. I never even gave vultures a second glance myself…until I met one. […]
Siding for the mews – Thank you, Susan!!!
Holy cow! It actually looks like an official building—the siding is on! The original plan for the mews for our Draper Museum Raptor Experience didn’t include siding due to budget […]
The innards of the mews!
Periodically, the work on the mews for our Draper Museum Raptor Experience would come to a stand still. While waiting for the electrical and plumbing to be installed, we started […]
Special thanks to our Raptor Experience interns
As the summer progressed, I began to stress more about the fact that my interns from the University of Wyoming weren’t actually getting the internship they were supposed to have. […]
Hawk Heaven
The state of Wyoming limits the number of birds you can have for an educational program to five individuals, and they steer you toward having one bird from each “family” […]
