Rocky Mountain Raptor Center Hosts Christmas Open House Dec. 14
Thursday, December 4, 1997
FORT COLLINS--The public is invited to attend the Rocky
Mountain Raptor Program's Christmas open house Dec. 14.
The event runs from 11 a.m.-3 p.m. at the raptor program's
headquarters north of Colorado State University's Veterinary
Teaching Hospital, 300 W. Drake Road, Fort Collins. Refreshments
will be served.
Visitors will have the opportunity to tour the facility and
meet nonreleasable, or permanently injured, birds of prey that
live at the raptor center. Birds on display will include a bald
eagle, golden eagle, peregrine falcon, northern goshawk, merlin,
a great-horned owl and many others.
"This event has become a holiday tradition for us and a
great opportunity for nature lovers to see what the Rocky
Mountain Raptor Program is all about," said Judy Scherpelz,
program director.
Visitors also may talk to volunteers to learn more about the
center's volunteer program, environmental education presentations
and the center's public outreach exhibits. Many gift items will
be available for sale at the Raptor Gift Shop, with proceeds from
sales going to support the program.
The Rocky Mountain Raptor Program is a self-sufficient
volunteer effort that provides medical care and rehabilitation to
injured birds of prey and environmental education programs to the
public. This year, about 150 volunteers helped treat 160 injured
birds of prey. Sixty percent of those birds were returned to the
wild. Through its educational efforts, the raptor program in 1997
reached nearly 10,000 students in 55 Colorado schools.
For more information about the program or the open house,
call (970) 491-0398.
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