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April 26, 2017

Alaska town seeks funds to expand raptor center

By CLARA MILLER
Capital City Weekly

HAINES, Alaska — Inside the American Bald Eagle Foundation aviary in Haines, Education and Outreach Coordinator Sidney Campbell moved slowly, calling Sarah, a great horned owl, and tapping a nearby perch. Sarah studied her audience — then her requested perch — before bursting into a quick succession of flaps, alighting and then swiftly gobbling a small rodent part off the platform, her reward for granting Campbell's request.

“Right now what we're working on with Sarah is getting voluntary weight,” Campbell explained as she eventually got the owl to land on a special scale that is shaped like a perch. “Good girl. 1494 (grams).”


 
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