Draper Natural History Museum

Draper Natural History Museum staff and volunteers conduct long-term ecological research in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem and keep up with all the wildlife and science news and issues related to this world-renowned, natural treasure. Keep up with Draper Museum fieldwork and Greater Yellowstone news and information here.

Teasdale gives you another look at his facial disk line.
September 25, 2012

Teasdale, the Old Man (Well, Not Really)

Teasdale, our great horned owl, was the second bird I learned to work with. Before working with Teasdale, I had only seen…

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September 17, 2012

Isham, Our Resident Gentleman, and I

My feelings for Isham were based initially on my feelings for red-tailed hawks in the wild. Being the most common soaring hawk…

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September 13, 2012

I Have the Best Job in the World

Let me begin by saying I wanted this volunteer job ever since seeing the program that HawkQuest, a raptor education program from…

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September 5, 2012

Announcing a new era… of blogging, anyway

As much as we all hated to see Sarah head back to school and abandon us here at the Draper Museum Raptor…

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August 27, 2012

Back In The Saddle Again

Well, the summer is almost over. Brandon and Sarah have returned to the University of Wyoming and should have completed their first…

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August 23, 2012

Sarah the Intern, signing off

This morning I put on my work shirt, then giggled when I realized it was the first shirt I bought to work…

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