Birds of prey in Library/Community Center program
More than 50 people - with kids sitting on the floor in front - filled a room at the Westside Community Center Feb. 21 to learn about birds of prey (raptors) and got to see four of them up close.
The presenting group was Nature's Educators, a nonprofit, all-volunteer organization from Aurora whose “mission is to teach anyone and everyone about the importance of birds of prey,” its website states.
Shown at different times during the presentation were a red-tailed hawk, a merlin (also known as a pigeon hawk) a screech owl and a falcon. For each speaker, a bird was leashed to a heavy glove, while the audience heard about hunting habits and even threats such birds face, including (in modern times) wind farms.
Nature's Educators houses 29 birds and reptiles in all, pictured by name on the group's website at http://natureseducators.org.
Westside Pioneer article