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Birds of Prey Foundation
2290 S. 104th St.
Broomfield, CO 80020
Tel: (303) 460-0674
He is a much loved, often photographed and greatly watched resident of Westminster, Colorado. He has lived near the Legacy Golf Course for at least eight years and raised a successful brood each year. His mate is a normal colored Red Tailed Hawk. He is an albinistic (partial albino) Red Tailed Hawk.
On April 19, of [...]
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Proximity to these proud and graceful creatures almost always inspires awe in those of us fortunate enough to have the opportunity. The beauty of soft and silent wings, fierce and golden or dark and intelligent eyes, the intricate patterns of color on feathers, those fine ancient talons and beak, the mighty effort [...]
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Story added from previous website.
5/31/99
I received this five-week-old Golden Eagle chick in May of 1999. He was found on the ground, very emaciated, with severe wounds to the back on 4/11/99, he was cared for by a rehabilitator in Delta, Colorado, and flown here yesterday. She did a beautiful job caring for the bird-he tripled [...]
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In the fall of 2004 we received a beautiful 20-year old Bald Eagle. He had lived at the Rocky Mountain Arsenal for the majority of his captive life and needed a new home. Other facilities give their birds regal names, such as Liberty, Spirit, Lady, and we have Adam, the name he came with.
Adam knows his name and he responds to it. He had been shot 21 years
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In the spring of 2005 a lady observed the aerial combat of two Bald Eagles in a field north of Boulder. After numerous violent physical interactions the birds ended up on the ground with their talons locked into each other’s bodies.
A call from Boulder Animal Control officers, and the Colorado Division of Wildlife about [...]
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Snowstorm burden to birds on the mend
Foundation seeking donations after snow destroyed flight cage
By Katie Ford, Camera Staff Writer
April 5, 2003
BROOMFIELD — As a hawk swoops overhead, Sigrid Ueblacker, president of the Birds of Prey Foundation, points out the damage to the large flight cage that held injured hawks in need of rehabilitation.
“It [...]
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Omani Tate
by Sigrid Noll Ueblacker March 2003
In January of 2002 we released a beautiful Lady Eagle south of Boulder on Open Space property.
She was found just east of the release site under a power line, that was still vibrating from the impact that grounded the fatally injured bird with a fractured ulna and radius in [...]
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Our New Baby!!
Hello, my name is Mayflower. I’m a baby Great Horned Owl.
My mother had a nest in a tree that humans wanted to cut down to build a road. They took away our home and the place she chose to raise her family. I will never, ever know my mother, but I think I [...]
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How is it that wild creatures seem to sense our feelings, our kind intentions, and respond to them in unusual and subtle ways? If we begin to pay attention to the stories they have to tell us, we may find some of our long lost senses and instincts, and begin to understand our magnificent wild [...]
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By Sigrid Ueblacker
A few summers ago a quiet young man came to our facility to work. I don’t even remember his name. But I remember him for who he was and what he said. He brought all the necessary paperwork from the courts. He chose our facility to volunteer for community service. He was [...]
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