Birds of Prey Northwest

2015 Year in Review

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Our first admission of 2015—a mature bald eagle

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Greg Walmsley, owner of Oxarc Welding,
graciously donated our new van.
Here he holds an orphaned red tailed hawk.

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Liberty—a veteran teaching bald eagle with
Birds of Prey Northwest

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Baby red tailed hawks, now free
after being orphaned in 2015

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A very young orphaned red tailed hawk

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A barn owl goes free

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Interns play an invaluable role at Birds of Prey Northwest.
Here, Andrea holds a short eared owl.

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Andrea releases a western screech owl

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Elliot, intern, properly restrains a bald eagle

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Melissa, intern, with a northern pygmy owl

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Kristen, intern, and Cleo the American Kestrel, an educational bird at Birds of Prey Northwest

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Our favorite counterparts to the south in Twin Falls, Idaho—
Julie and Robert Randall—here transferring a golden eagle to BoPNW

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A rare addition to our teaching team—an Arctic gyrfalcon

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An orphaned great horned owl weighs in

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Resident bald eagle Avista acted as foster parent to an orphaned bald eagle, still showing his immature brown plumage and dark beak, whose nest collapsed.
The orphaned eagle has since gone back to the wild!

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Dakota the educational golden eagle continues to teach youth the importance of eagles.

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A young bald eagle ends up grounded at Prairie Animal Hospital in their parking lot. They knew just who to call for this lucky bird!

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Dan Butler—another graduate of raptor handling!

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Jan and Nita, two of our champion fundraisers!

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Fish collected from the Sandpoint Team Fishing Derby to feed ospreys and bald eagles

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The Sandpoint team who organized the fishing derby on
Lake Pend Oreille

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Work continues on the eagle flight run—nearly 110 ft long!

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Nate Albrecht and Cameron Heusser, our favorite CDA Tribal biologists, building a new aviary for Birds of Prey Northwest

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An outside view of the new aviary

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Scott's Tree Service to the rescue!

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A young osprey weighs in on admission to
Birds of Prey Northwest

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One of the many eagles admitted in 2015—another young bald eagle

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A bald eagle, recovered after being poisoned, returns to the wild.

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A screech owl who went free in 2015

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We occasionally get called to aid injured ravens as well.

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Chairman of the Board Don Veltkamp with a recovering bald eagle,
seen here with its hood on to help it stay calm

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Our final admission of 2015—a great gray owl,
held by Director Janie Veltkamp

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From everyone at Birds of Prey Northwest,

THANK YOU
for your continued support!

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We are non-profit with no state or federal financial support...

We cannot do what we do, without you!

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