Public Spring Raptor Release May 5

Plan to come out and see The Raptor Center at our Spring Public Raptor Release! It is on Saturday May 5, at Hyland Lake Park Reserve in Bloomington, MN. Meet our education raptors, and bring your used ink jet printer cartridges for our Recycling for Raptors program.

WCCO story on Urban Bald Eagles

WCCO-TV mentioned The Raptor Center in a recent story on bald eagles in urban settings.

MPR story on urban eagles

Clinic Manager Lori Arent talked a bit about urban eagle populations on a recent MPR story.

Public Programs Today at TRC!

Don't forget - today, Friday, April 6, we have two public programs! At 11:00am and at 1:00pm, here at our location, we are offering Raptors of Minnesota programs, which we normally just offer on weekends. Adults are $7.50 and children $5.00. First come, first served with no RSPV's.

TRC Clinic Census April 2

The Raptor Center has received 104 wild patients so far this year. We currently have 40 patients.
Eagles
Bald eagle - 11

Hawks
Red-tailed hawk - 9
Red-shouldered - 1

Falcons
Peregrine falcon - 3
American kestrel - 1
Merlin - 1

Owls
Great horned owl - 10
Long-eared owl - 2
Eastern screech-owl - 1
Snowy owl - 1

Peregrine Falcon Cams

Peregrine falcons are currently incubating eggs in Minnesota. In some of the southern states, eggs are already hatching.

Nest cameras are great ways to be able to watch the daily lives of these magnificent birds. The Raptor Center is proud to have played an important part of the reintrodution of the peregrine falcon in the midwest. You can read more about the Midwest Peregrine Project background here.

The Raptor Center has several education peregrines that are winged ambassadors for their wild counterparts. Your support with our Adopt a Raptor program helps us to care for them, and continue their work to remind us all how linked we are with the environment.

Eastern Screech-owls on TRC Facebook Cover

If you guessed Eastern Screech-owls as the baby raptor species on our Facebook Cover Photo, you were correct! Thank you to all who posted guesses and comments! Please watch for another photo the week of April 16.