State 14 of 50
Wow, great website, Facebook, and more from the Indiana Raptor Center!
They’re always open to tours by appointment, have regular shows in Brown Country State Park, they’re Open House Event is coming up on October 15, and all October outdoor shows at the state park are 100% owls for the Halloween season!
If you’re anywhere near Indiana, I would definitely encourage you to check these guys out!
Do click through those links too! Tons of great owl, hawk, and eagle content. They have exceptionally good media, and it sounds like they are having a tough time financially right now, so big shout out to them and please visit and support them if possible.
I’m going to drop the caption comments down in the comments since this went on so long.
I don’t live all that far from this place! Thanks for posting. I’m going to have to contact them.
That’s awesome! I have one about 10 minutes from me, but it’s only open twice a year. They have all kinds of owls, hawks, foxes, possums, beavers, and random other things. I always try to go to check out who all is new.
It looked like these guys have some kestrels and merlins and also bald and golden eagles, so you’ll get to see the tiny ones and huge ones. If you’ve never seen an eagle up close before, it is very impressive. Peregrines are also very cool. They look like little rockets. They’re the fastest animal in the world.
If you do go, make sure to put up some pictures here! It’d be nice if people actually got inspired by some of these posts. I always try to find ones people can actually visit. It takes a bit of work to find a good place that actually has decent pics and info. Many are really small and can’t afford those kinds of extras.
You should be able to learn a lot from the handlers and maybe find some love for some new animals. Vultures are highly underrated and fascinating creatures. Their bodies are very purpose built and most of their strange looks are for sanitary reasons, given their role in the ecosystem.
I’m rambling now cuz you have me excited for you, so I hope you go, bring a friend, tell others, share pics, etc!
I will def post pictures after I go! I really appreciate the effort it takes to find good things to post. I’d love to be able to see an eagle up close! We have a barred owl that hangs around our house but it’s so hard to get a good picture of it.
Very nice! We had a barn owl on our fence as a kid. That’s been the best I ever really got to see one in the wild. I hear the great horned owls where I’m at now, but haven’t ever gotten to see them. I think I’m in the wrong side of the woods from where they go. I did see one that must have gotten something to eat right at the edge of the road a few weeks ago. We saw the cat in front of us swerve and when we got there it was a giant GHO! I went by a couple days later and didn’t see signs of anything, so I hope he flew away before anything happened to him.
It is fun posting here, and I was really hoping to get people to visit these places. Plus I get to learn more things. This week I learned that the ear tufts are called plumicorns, and that in French, they have different words for owls with and without tufts. The one word for owl also is slang for cool/awesome/etc.