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Carolina Raptor Center is dedicated to environmental stewardship and the conservation of birds of prey through education, research, and the rehabilitation of injured and orphaned raptors.

Eagle vs. Robot in Aerial Battle

If you want to fly your remote-controlled eagle robot, and it encounters a real eagle, expect an aerial battle, because eagles are not cool with sharing their airspace. Eagles don't like flying robots. Most...

Rap's Coach Sam Mitchell; Fired

The NBA’s coaching carousel continues to turn, but its latest revolution struck a little too close to home. On Wednesday, less than twenty-four hours removed from a stunning thirty-nine point defeat at the hand...

Rare British species get their own wood to thrive in

There are at least 45 rare or protected species of British wildlife that will benefit from their own woodland area at what will be known as the Sunday Times Wood in Hertfordshire. One of the species that will...

F-22 Raptor Makes International Air Show Debut

The Lockheed Martin F-22 Raptor air dominance fighter made its international air show debut outside North America today at the Royal International Air Tattoo held at RAF Fairford. The U.S. Air Force F-22...

Bald Eagle Eating Big Fish

I was able to sneak up quite close to this wild bald eagle eating a big fish on the Spanish Banks tidal flats in English Bay (Vancouver). Often when they are eating, or if there is more than one, the eagles are...

Bald Eagle, Vancouver Harbour

Readers curious about where these wild bald eagles I have been filming can be found in such abundance can see in this video . . . .Starting in spring and lasting until about mid-September, the tides in English Bay...

Wild Bald Eagle Mates

This month is very special at Spanish Banks in English Bay (Vancouver) because the low tide comes early in the morning. The light is great, there are very few people about, and the bald eagles frolic, fly, hunt...

Juvenile Bald Eagles with Fish

As nesting season progresses, the various adult bald eagles at Spanish Banks in English Bay (Vancouver) are busy keeping their chicks fed. In a couple of weeks they will fledge, and must be strong and...

Greater Vancouver Zoo, Lion Eats Eagle in front of visitors.

Certainly a sad day, and horrific experience for onlookers and especially children who  witnessed  a trained Golden eagle performing, only to be harrassed by crows and into the waiting mouth of a...

Angels and Knights over Nation’s Capitol

(updated) Screaming in formation through the blue skies near the nation's capitol, the phenomenal U.S. Navy Blue Angels and the Army's premier parachute team, the Golden Knights join a host of other aerial...

Swabbie flies F-22, doesn't speak zoomie

Perhaps one of our military readers can shed some light on the differences between swabbie-speak and zoomie-speak.  Regardless, the F-22 Raptor sounds like a real scream."of the continuous challenges he faces is the barrier of "speaking Air Force." I grew up operating...

4 Winged Birds and a European Stegosaurus

Dinosaur news! The Times Online reports on January 23rd, 2007: "Scientists reconstructing the fossilised remains of a Microraptor gui have concluded that its legs were aerodynamically feathered and acted as a second set of wings to help it to glide between trees. ......

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