Birds of Prey Foundation

09/30/2025

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Email from Birds of Prey Foundation You don't want to miss this.       Annual Fall Migration Celebration Dinner and Silent Auction, with Guest Speaker Brian K Wheeler Saturday, October 25th, 2025 Riv

09/17/2025

With fall approaching, we are busy evaluating and releasing healed birds back into the wild! Over the past four weeks we’ve had the privilege of releasing 85 birds into the wild, including Swanson’s, Red-tailed, and Cooper’s Hawks; Great Horned, N. Saw -whet and N. Pygmy Owls; a Prairie Falcon, American Kestrels, a pelican and 2 Turkey Vultures!

08/17/2025

It has been a busy summer with 247 birds admitted in 45 days, from American Kestrels, Osprey, Swainson's Hawks, Turkey Vultures, and everything in between. They have been hit by cars, tangled in fishing line, are sick with West Nile Virus, and more. So many birds in such a short amount of time have stretched the budget thin with the increased cost of medical care and food.
Can you help us get through this difficult time? Any amount helps!
Click the link below to contribute today.

https://www.birds-of-prey.org/donate

07/19/2025

Summer is bird-nado season in raptor rehab!! We have received 92 birds in the last two weeks. That’s 15% of our annual volume and is typical for this time of year. We are seeing mostly sick and injured Cooper’s Hawk and Red-tailed Hawk fledglings, but today we got this young Burrowing Owl, who got caught in a barbed wire fence. Amazingly his wing is mostly intact, despite some bad wounds. Our fingers are crossed he can make a full recovery , but he’s got a lot of healing to do!

06/18/2025

We are getting busy! Even our foster mamas have their hands full this time of year! All of the young Great Horned Owls we’ve admitted this spring are in an outdoor flight cage with an adult who is showing them the ropes. Our resident Red-tailed Hawk was paired with a nestling, who has grown a lot since she came into our care!

03/28/2025

These two, slightly older baby Great Horned Owls are approximately 3-4 weeks old. 🥰

03/28/2025

Our first, second and third baby Great Horned Owls of the season arrived within 18 hours of one another, starting Wednesday evening. This little one fell from its nest in a spruce tree. We estimate s/he is 5 or 6 days old. Hobbies include eating, sleeping and growing. Here s/he is snuggled up in our temperature-controlled brooder.

01/21/2025

This Great Horned Owl was shot in the head with a BB. He is recovering from an eye injury and fracture from being shot. Most often, when we admit birds of prey that have been shot, it has been done with BB guns and pellet guns. Anyone caught harming or killing a bird of prey faces fines and possible jail time.
Help our mission of returning these birds to the wild where they belong!

www.birds-of-prey.org

12/10/2024

Today is Colorado Gives Day! Thanks to all who have already contributed to our campaign!!! There is still time to give if you would like to support our mission helping birds like this Peregrine Falcon return to the wild.

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12/07/2024

Thanks to your support, we were able to rehab this juvenile Bald Eagle and release her last month. Please remember us on Colorado Gives Day. https://www.coloradogives.org/organization/BirdsofPrey

11/28/2024

These two don’t know it yet, but they are cleared for release as soon as the snow melts! We like to make sure it is as easy as it can be for them to hunt upon release. Birds of Prey Foundation is beyond grateful for the support of our extended community as we work to return injured raptors to the wild! Thank you so much and Happy Thanksgiving!!!

08/17/2024

Every summer, the young Swainson’s Hawks amaze and delight us with their combination of toughness and goofiness. This little guy was well enough to move from our ICU to an outdoor flight cage today. If all goes well, he will join a kettle of other youngsters and they will fly to Argentina together in the fall! In the meantime, they are all eating a ton of food to ready themselves for migration.