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.

July 27, 2011

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…

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Red-tailed Hawk for our Greater Yellowstone Raptor Experience.
July 22, 2011

Hawk Heaven

The state of Wyoming limits the number of birds you can have for an educational program to five individuals, and they steer…

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A Building for the Greater Yellowstone Raptor Experience!

Things are moving right along here for the Raptor Experience. We have two birds lined up for the program and the mews…

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The trusses have finally arrived and they went up fast!

Trusses for the mews

While I was working diligently on getting the birds for the Greater Yellowstone Raptor Experience program lined up, work continued on the…

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Hayabusa Posing at a Photo Shoot

Another Success—and a peregrine falcon!

The day after learning about the male Great Horned Owl, I received a call in regards to the Peregrine Falcon I had inquired about….

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A Response—and a great horned owl for our flock!

The very first message I sent in regards to a bird was for a female Great Horned Owl with a wing injury….

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