Falconry
What is it?
Why do we use it?
What is it?
Why do we use it?
| The Avian Reconditioning Center 323 West Lester Rd. Apopka, Fl 32712 (407) 461-1056 |
It is a great time to visit ARC and learn more about us and our efforts to help Birds of Prey. While at ARC visit our new Education Enhancement Shop and find a really neat gift to help the "RAPTOR" learning experience! |
Adopt-a-Bird is a great gift idea. For the person who has everything... Great for every event; retirement, birthdays, graduations & More! (even Father's Day) Make the adoption even more fun with a great educational gift we can include with the package. Consider AAB as a different kind of birthday gift |
| The Avian Reconditioning Center |
Updated Aug 31,2010
The Avian Reconditioning Center is a not for profit birds of prey facility. Our main focuses are education, rehabilitation and falconry of birds of prey (raptors). Our education programs make the public aware of the importance of raptors in our environment and may be presented to all age groups from preschoolers to seniors groups. Our rehabilitation efforts help us to evaluate and to return raptors that are recovering from illness or injury. We are NOT available for rescue, please bring the raptor to our facility for proper care and rehabilitation. We use falconry techniques when needed to evaluate a bird's chances for survival in the wild after recovering from an injury and to teach young birds how to hunt. Our Master Falconer is also available for falconry solutions. Please call ARC between 9am & 5pm for further information. 407-461-1056 |
Check out this great interview by Bill Shafer at Growing Bolder The Purpose and Beauty of birds http://growingbolder.com/media/living/volunteering/the -purpose-and-beauty-of-birds-of-58851.html |
Saturdays at ARC 10AM to 4PM (weather permitting) Birds are on display all day and flight demonstrations are usually available between 10:30am & 12:30pm Also available are educational displays and our resource class room Children's Story time is at 1PM/Please call for this months story. Different kids crafts are available to heighten the learning experience, please ask (craft fee will apply). Wednesday Mornings Raptor Resource Room open 10AM to 1:00 PM Great for anyone wanting to use our on site raptor library for home schools, artists projects & photographers. Please call or e-mail for more details 407-461-1056 wildwoods2@aol.com ARC is in the process of developing a new web page, please stay tuned! Please mark your calendars for our upcoming events: Fall Owl Fest 2010 November 6 from 10am-3pm "Raptor Rap" Kids Camp December 20, 21 & 22 Please registrer early as we do fill up fast! |
Special Thank-you Park Avenue Animal Hospital! Our Center is so very fortunate to have the support of Park Avenue Animal Hospital and Drs. Rick Rubinstein and John Turgai. As supporters of our Center, Park Avenue Animal Hospital (PAAH) has joined ARC in our quest to bring hawks, owls, eagles, and other birds of prey back to nature, by providing medical support to our vast array of magnificent birds of prey. The services they provide to our Center are phenomenal and do so much to help us provide quality veterinarian care. Their professional approach to all animal care is apparent every time we come to see them, whether we need x-rays, surgery or other diagnostics the Doctors and their excellent staff are always ready to help. We depend on volunteers to run our Center, we have no paid staff. It is the dedication of our volunteers that help us to maintain and build our facility to continue our work with raptors. We can always use good volunteers at ARC, if you think you might like to volunteer at ARC PLEASE give us a call! Come out on Saturday and find out what we do...We always have so much going on and we can REALLY use the help! THANK-YOU!! (407) 461-1056 |
| Adopt-A-Bird |
| Adopt-a-Bird is a sponsorship program that helps us to help birds of prey by enabling us to buy food, medical care, and other many needed supplies. Please link to our AAB wed page ~www.adoptabird.org~ |
The Avian Reconditioning Center is open to the public on Saturdays only 10am to 4pm (weather permitting, we are an outdoor facility and high winds, rain and foul weather or COLD temps can be problems; we suggest you call) We have native birds of prey on display and have free flight demos from 10:30 AM to 12:30 PM. Admission is free, donations accepted & needed! Suggested donations ~ $5.00/adult & $3.00/ child We are also available for programs on or off site, please call to book a program 407 461-1056 |
