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A large proportion of wild raptors admitted to The Raptor Center (TRC) have suffered a traumatic injury. Learn what our team does to help manage their pain and lead the way in researching best practices.

As The Raptor Center (TRC) looks to make larger impacts on animal welfare, raptor medicine, and ecosystem health on a global scale, it relies on a world-class team of experts.

The Partners for Wildlife (P4W) grant-funded initiative, founded at The Raptor Center (TRC) in 2018, holds excellence in animal care as its core mission and aims to spread that mission beyond TRC and its avian patients.

Beloved turkey vulture ambassador Nero, one of the oldest known turkey vultures in North America, passed away on April 19, 2022 at 47 years of age. He had a lasting impact on conservation and our understanding of his species, and inspired hundreds of thousands as an education ambassador. Nero will be dearly missed.

A fun, new three-part talk series that brings together experts in ecosystem health from diverse backgrounds, highlighting the ways unexpected topics are intertwined.

 “Light as a feather” is a phrase often used to describe something light and insubstantial. Feathers may be lightweight, but they’re anything but insubstantial.

Take advantage of two beneficial tax provisions set to expire the end of this year!

Halloween is full of spooky monsters and creepy themes. We took a few of the classic Halloween characters and gave them a raptor twist!

Some patients require a bit more time to heal than others. First arriving in October of 2020 with all his flight feathers singed, this male peregrine falcon had to molt and regrow a whole new set. He was able to return back to the wild September of 2021.

The number of American kestrels admitted to our clinic has seen a decrease in the past several decades, which speaks to the larger population decline across all of North America. Learn more about what you can do to help this charismatic falcon species.