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Max, Golden Eagle |
Updated 7/7/2018 4:41:13 PM |
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![]() Max eats game meat of elk, deer, and bear, plus trapped Eastern Fox Squirrels, which are problem non-natives to the area. He and Nigel also enjoy laboratory rats and mice, thankfully donated to the program. Max is the boss when it comes to feeding time, and Nigel gets the food placed on the second perch. At 29 years old now, Max may be with us for some time to come, a staple for school assemblies. This seems like a major commitment, but he is a pleasure to know, a bird that is a very charismatic member of the teaching team.
TRAGEDY and Max suffered a terrible accident and had to be euthanized in April.
He had been on the ground incubating a rock as he did all last spring and I discovered him in the morning with his wing ripped off: feathers, skin, just bare bones. A huge coyote showed up briefly a few weeks later, and we imagine it pulled his wing right through the fence wire, parts scattered for 30 feet. The Raptor Ranch is just not the same, R.I.P. our premier pal.
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