Short-eared owl

MEMBERSHIP

For only $35 a year, you can help our work with birds of prey, learn about current events and programs, receive a discount on Gift Rapt items, receive the Raptor Chapter's newsletter, and read life histories of raptors in the Midwest.

 

ADOPT A HAWK

For an ongoing annual contribution, you can be the financial guardian of one of our permanent resident birds or sponsor a rehab patient. You will receive a large, framed print of "your bird" in appreciation for your generosity.

 
Barn owl, Peregrine falcon, Bald eagle, Harris hawk, Great horned owl

 

 

 

Cooper's hawk wearing protective hood.

VOLUNTEERS
The Raptor Chapter depends on the efforts of people to accomplish the work of education, rehabilitation, and conservation. Volunteers are needed for a wide array of tasks. Some are more glorious than others (transporting an injured hawk compared to scrubbing "slices" - the hi-tech term for hawk droppings), but all are important to keeping many birds healthy and ready for work or release.

 

Kestrels

 

  • Bird Runners - transport injured birds
    Hawk Keepers - handle birds and clean facilities
    Rehab Trainees - learn how to treat birds
    Flight Crews     - exercise and condition birds for release
    Cutters - leather craft for equipment
    Aviary Engineers - build facilities and perches
    Educators     - assist with school programs
    Volunteer Coordinators - organize activities

 
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