Hacking is a common term that seems to come up in every article and book I read about the successful recovery and reintroduction of the Peregrine… Read More
Raptor Gloves: The What and Why
This post is from Anne, the Volunteer. Unfortunately, our blog site is being difficult and it was posted under Melissa’s account. Sorry for any confusion.… Read More
Raptor Gloves: the What and Why
We are often asked about the interesting gloves that we wear when handling our birds. While most people instantly see why we wear them, some just… Read More
The Eagle, er American Kestrel, Has Landed
I hope everyone has been enjoying the recent posts Anne has done about several individual raptor species—it’s easy to tell she enjoys working with these… Read More
It’s a bird! It’s a plane! It’s Suli the—wait, come back!
So, admittedly, I’ve been a bad intern and didn’t post last week. I know, you’re all terribly disappointed. A lot has happened in two weeks.… Read More
“That bird’s as big as you are!”
I was so excited when Melissa told me we were finally going to have me hold Suli the turkey vulture. This was it. I was… Read More
All Hail Princess Haya
Make way! Make way! The princess is coming through. Throw out the red carpet and kneel before her beauty. While we may all be unworthy… Read More
The equal-opportunity grump: our great horned owl
Teasdale the great horned owl was the second bird to stand on my glove. He slowly and reluctantly made his way onto my arm, glaring… Read More
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)
I knew this day would come…kind of like how you know you’re going to have high blood pressure some day, or heart disease. Eventually it’s… Read More
A bird in the hand is worth two Facebook posts (at least at first)
It wasn’t until the second day, when Melissa let us hold Teasdale the great horned owl, that it finally hit me. It was the second… Read More