Imagine your toddler loudly demanding and consuming a couple of steaks for breakfast, lunch, and dinner every day. Many baby raptors consume 3-4 times as much food as what a grown adult bird eats! During their first 6 weeks young birds often double their size every other day until, in just a couple of months, they are the very same size as their parents. One baby Barn Owl needs 10-13 mice per day! One baby American Kestrel eats 3 or 4! All that growing during this crucial period requires exactly the right food, prepared fresh and lots of it, to build the strong bones, keen eyes, perfect feathers, and healthy bodies essential to survive the toughest year of their lives: the first one.

You can help us bring these beautiful young birds along to adulthood. You can adopt one!

To download a printable adoption form and read more about this year’s arrivals; click HERE

Adopt an Orphan - Online

American Kestrel $25		Screech Owl $35
Long-Eared Owl $65		Saw Whet Owl $65
Burrowing Owl $65		Northern Harrier $70
Cooper’s Hawk $70		Barn Owl $70
Great Horned Owl $100		Turkey Vulture $100.00
Red Tailed Hawk $250		NEW! Monthly payments of $21.00
Swainson’s Hawk $250		NEW! Monthly payments of $21.00
Peregrine Falcon $500		NEW! Monthly payments of $45.00
Golden Eagle $1,000		NEW! Monthly payments of $85.00
Bald Eagle $1,000		NEW! Monthly payments of $85.00

Enjoy this delightful self-guided pond tour that will run rain or shine and get some great ideas for your yard while helping to support our birds!

Proceeds benefit the Birds of Prey Foundation
Adult tickets: $15 (children under 15 free)
Includes guide book and map

Call for Information: 303-666-5430 Or visit us at: www.rmwaterscape.com

Tickets go on sale July 1st through day of the tour at:

1. Bird’s of Prey Thrift Shop 720-890-4311
   917 Front Street, Suite 100, Louisville, CO 80027
2. Louisville Shoe Repair 303-665-3008
   599 East South Boulder Road, Louisville, CO 80027
3. Lafayette Florist 303-665-5552
   600 South Public Road. Lafayette, CO 80026
4. Enery Water Garden 303-359-1783
   7601 Indiana Street, Arvada CO 80007
5. Wild Birds Unlimited 303-467-2644
   7677 West 88th Avenue, Arvada, CO 80005
6. Wright’s Nursery 303-424-3914
   11100 Ralston Road, Arvada, CO 80001
7. Picadilly Nursery 303-659-2382
   21750 East 152nd Avenue, Brighton, CO 80603
8. The Flower Bin 303-772-3454
   1805 Nelson Road, Longmont, CO 80501
9. Tan Express 303-651-3300
   800 South Hover Road #32, Longmont, CO 80501
10. Wild Bird Center 303-442-1322
    1641 28th Street, Boulder, CO 80301
11. Pioneer Sand Company 303-465-4212
    11250 Dillon Road, Broomfield, CO 80020
12. Wild Birds Unlimited 303-255-9001
    1281 East 120th Ave, Unit H, Thornton, CO 80233
13. True Pump 303-744-3505
    1429 South Broadway, Denver, CO 80210

In-Kind Donations

We also gratefully accept donations of materials needed for the every day maintenance of our facility. Below is a list of our current or ongoing needs.

Fragrance-free laundry soap
Dawn Dishwashing Soap
Antibacterial Soft Soap
Pine Sol or Lysol
Scrub brushes
Kitchen dish brushes
Brooms
Mops
Green Daisey Mat astro turf -X100 foot roll
Leaf Rakes
Metal Rakes
Rodent Feed
Poultry feed - Manna Pro Game Bird Starter & Game Bird Breeder
Kitty Litter
Toilet Paper
Paper Towels
55 gallon plastic trash bags
white 8 1/2 X 11 copier paper
white 81/2 X 11 ink jet printer paper
white legal envelopes
81/2 X 11 white envelopes
23, 37, 55 cent stamps
Wood Shavings (not cedar)
Straw for rabbit bedding
Cardboard animal carriers
Sand for cage floors
InkJet Photo Paper
InkJet color and black ink cartridges

A golf cart

If you have donated materials, please fill out our online In-Kind Donation form.

On April 19, of this year he arrived with blood and dirt stains on his brilliant white feathers, trailing his left wing on the ground. He was reported to have been struck by a golf ball, sustaining a serious fracture to his left humerus. Two days later he underwent surgery by our fabulous Veterinarian, Dr. Lee Eggleston of Colorado Springs.

I named the bird “MyHawk” due to all the inquiries from people that have a special place in their hearts for this unique bird: “How is My Hawk doing?”

On May 16th the steel pin in his wing was removed, and on May 21h 2008 he was moved outside into our 100 foot flight cage to begin his recovery by exercising and working hard to fly across the cage effortlessly.
My Hawk is magnificent and rather arrogant. He seems to know he is special. The first thing he did when I removed him from his carrier was bite me in the finger hard enough to draw blood. Even that was an honor.

During all the weeks of his stay in ICU he kept his distance as each day we presented “alms” of good intention. However, he never missed a meal.

He has a dark spot on the back of his head, dark, beautiful brown eyes and three red feathers on right side of his tail tail. His talons are ivory white but his beak is black.

I have a folder on my desktop that is called “White Things”. Someone sent me a photograph of him long before he was injured. It is our hope that he will recover and be returned to his home soon to raise many more generations of Red Tailed Hawks with his spirit and attitude in the future. What a special bird he is!

Our Rites of Spring are equally important. We nurture and care for more than 90 birds during the winter months and look forward to their releases in the spring. These are our most precious rewards. To date we have released 66 birds, ranging from a tiny poor will to a mighty eagle.

The visits of Pelicans mark the heart of spring here on the Colorado Front Range. But we know that already. We have admitted our 100th bird for this year, and, with another 300-400 expected, our work has just begun.

The Babies are Arriving!

Great Horned Owlets. Our beautiful 26-year-old foster Mom Nina now has seven babies to look after. She is incredible. She feeds, nurtures, teaches and cares for these young orphans as if they were her own. During a recent attempt to take pictures of her and her brood she stepped up on a perch and began to hoot at me. She then proceeded to chase me out of her cage, to protect her babies.

More baby Great Horned Owls are in ICU and soon they will join Nina’s big family. All our young Great Horned Owls stay with us until fall, when owlets in the wild leave their parents.

Three Nestling Screech Owls arrived from Lamar, Colorado. Sadly, they lost their home when their nest tree was cut down. One of the babies appeared to be in dire need of attention; indeed, he seemed to be dying. He was the first to be examined.

Screech Owls have this great ability to turn off and play dead when the stress of reality simply becomes too much (an ability we might do well to remember in similar predicaments). So it was with this little guy, but when offered food - whoops! - our “dead” bird had no objections to eating! Even as he lay there on his back playing dead, he took and swallowed the food.

All the owlets are doing well and eating on their own and soon will go to our Foster Dad, Oscar, in a beautiful, spacious outdoor cage for further education on owl behavior and survival. They will be returned to Lamar in early fall.

Our first nestling American Kestrel arrived on May 21st – she opens the flood gate of the more than 60 young Kestrels likely to arrive this year.

You can help!

In-kind donations of saline solution (for cleaning wounds); game bird breeder and starter food for our quail; pine shavings; clean, crisp bales of straw are desperately needed. They are available at Front Range Pet and Supply in Louisville, 303-464-0956. Your donations can be dropped off at our ICU. Call 303-460-0674 for directions.

Don’t forget that we are always in need of your “gently used” items for our Thrift Shoppe located at 917 Front Street, Suite 100, Louisville. Please call 720-890-4311 for shop hours.

Monetary donations for the care and food for our birds may be sent to 2290 S. 104th Street, Broomfield, CO 80020, OR you can make an online donation.

We are a non-profit 501(C)(3) organization whose mission is:

Last updated on 28 July 2008

In 2007 we cared for 37 species of birds. 62 birds (15%) were treated for diseases ranging from West Nile Virus and Trichomoniasis to Avian Pox and Aspergillosis. The release rate reflects all birds admitted in one year and all birds released in this year. *21 DOA (Dead on Arrival) birds were deducted to arrive at the release rate. These statistics were calculated according to the National Standards and Guidelines for Wildlife Rehabilitators.

Thanks for your interest in the Bird of Prey Foundation!

Please, applaud! Good things happen every day!

This great event was witnessed by our 28 year old Bald Eagle, Adam, who vigilantly observed our Governor signing the bill. Adam was shot in 1985, when he sustained fatal injuries to his wing, which doomed him to a life in captivity. He now enjoys being pampered and spoiled every day. He has a magnificent view of the Rocky Mountains in a spacious enclosure, where he is free to move about; Adam has a room with a view1

Photo credit to Jerry Neal – Colorado Division of Wildlife.