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! |
| We are usually flying several birds on Saturdays, please call to find out who is flying. Our flight demos are between 10:30am & 1:30pm |
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 2008 |
Updated June 22,2010
| The Avian Reconditioning Center is a not for profit birds of prey rehabilitation and education facility. One of our main focuses is the physical reconditioning of raptors that have been inactive for an extended period of time while recovering from illness or injury. We also use falconry techniques to evaluate a bird's chances for survival in the wild after recovering from an injury and to teach young birds how to hunt. Education is a primary focus as well and we provide many education opportunities using live birds of prey. |
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 Summer Hours- CLOSED AUGUST 10AM to 3PM (weather permitting) Birds are on display all day and flight demonstrations are usually available between 10:30 & 12:00 Educational displays and a 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. Wednesday Mornings Raptor Resource Room open 10AM to 1:00 PM PLEASE CALL so we know your coming. 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 |
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 3pm (weather permitting, we are an outdoor facility and high winds, rain and foul weather, COLD temps can be problems We have native birds of prey on display and have free flight demos from 11:00 AM to 1:30 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 |
| "Raptor Rap" Kids Camp July 26, 27 & 28, 2010 10am -1pm $15.00/day prepaid by 7/19/10 $20/day after that date~registration required. Kids have loads of fun learning about raptors. We have different activities and take home crafts each day that make learning fun and interesting. Each day includes a snack time with a fruit drink .Registration required Please call~~(407) 461-1056 for more info or mail a check with name & dates to: Avian Reconditioning Center PO Box 296 Apopka, FL 32704 |
Summer time is a really busy time at ARC! We have lots of Summer Camp Programs both on and off site, we are open on Saturdays (please note our summer hours) and this is our busiest time of year as far as rehabilitation...it's baby raptor season! Thank goodness for our volunteers that still come and help us out even in this HOT HOT weather! Enjoy some of these pictures of our "happenings" at ARC this summer & come on out Saturday! |
