Audubon Center for Birds of Prey Audubon Center For Birds Of Prey

SusScrofa

SusScrofa

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Audubon Center For Birds Of Prey is a small specialist facility about an hour from Orlando. They rehab birds of prey and keep a number of non-releasable individuals from various native species.
This is the current collection of species.
  • Merlin Falcon (Falco columbarius)
  • Peregrine Falcon (Falco peregrinus)
  • American Kestrel (Falco sparverius)
  • Crested Caracara (Caracara cheriway)
  • Red-tailed Hawk (Buteo jamaicensis)
  • Red-shouldered Hawk (Buteo lineatus)
  • Broad-winged Hawk (Buteo platypterus)
  • Bald Eagle (Haliaeetus leucocephalus)
  • Mississippi Kite (Ictinia mississippiensis)
  • Snail Kite (Rostrhamus sociabilis)
  • American Swallowtail Kite (Elanoides forficatus)
  • Osprey (Pandion haliaetus)
  • Turkey Vulture (Cathartes aura)
  • Black Vulture (Coragyps atratus)
  • Great Horned Owl (Bubo virginianus)
  • Eastern Screech Owl (Megascops asio)
  • Barred Owl (Strix varia)
  • Burrowing Owl (Speotyto cunicularia)
A number of common species and a few uncommon ones held, but the one true notable here is the Snail Kite. There is a single juvenile female and she may very well be the only one currently kept in captivity here in the US.

Until recently, the facility also kept Cooper's Hawk and Short-tailed Hawk; they can still be seen on the website, but the last individuals actually passed away. The Short-tailed Hawk would of been another very rare species held, in fact possibly only at Laura Quinn Bird Sanctuary now (also in Florida).
 
SusScrofa said:
Audubon Center For Birds Of Prey is a small specialist facility about an hour from Orlando. They rehab birds of prey and keep a number of non-releasable individuals from various native species.
This is the current collection of species.
  • Merlin Falcon (Falco columbarius)
  • Peregrine Falcon (Falco peregrinus)
  • American Kestrel (Falco sparverius)
  • Crested Caracara (Caracara cheriway)
  • Red-tailed Hawk (Buteo jamaicensis)
  • Red-shouldered Hawk (Buteo lineatus)
  • Broad-winged Hawk (Buteo platypterus)
  • Bald Eagle (Haliaeetus leucocephalus)
  • Mississippi Kite (Ictinia mississippiensis)
  • Snail Kite (Rostrhamus sociabilis)
  • American Swallowtail Kite (Elanoides forficatus)
  • Osprey (Pandion haliaetus)
  • Turkey Vulture (Cathartes aura)
  • Black Vulture (Coragyps atratus)
  • Great Horned Owl (Bubo virginianus)
  • Eastern Screech Owl (Megascops asio)
  • Barred Owl (Strix varia)
  • Burrowing Owl (Speotyto cunicularia)
A number of common species and a few uncommon ones held, but the one true notable here is the Snail Kite. There is a single juvenile female and she may very well be the only one currently kept in captivity here in the US.

Until recently, the facility also kept Cooper's Hawk and Short-tailed Hawk; they can still be seen on the website, but the last individuals actually passed away. The Short-tailed Hawk would of been another very rare species held, in fact possibly only at Laura Quinn Bird Sanctuary now (also in Florida).
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Also birds of prey Center in SC
 
drill said:
Also birds of prey Center in SC
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Would you care to elaborate on which part of the post you are referring to? Presumably it is either the Snail Kite or the Short-tailed Hawk, given that those are two species mentioned in the post as being particularly uncommon, but how is anyone going to know which - or both, or something else entirely - if you don't write a full sentence? Simply putting a few extra words in your posts would make all the difference.
 
Chlidonias said:
Would you care to elaborate on which part of the post you are referring to? Presumably it is either the Snail Kite or the Short-tailed Hawk, given that those are two species mentioned in the post as being particularly uncommon, but how is anyone going to know which - or both, or something else entirely - if you don't write a full sentence? Simply putting a few extra words in your posts would make all the difference.
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The Short-tailed hawk.
 
Another facility I just visited which has Short-tailed Hawk is Treasure Coast Wildlife Center in Florida. They also have a Sharp-shinned Hawk, which I believe is also rather rare in the US.
 
The Audubon Center for Birds of Prey is a facility located in Maitland, Florida. Species at the facility include crested caracara, bald eagle, American black vulture, red-shouldered hawk, peregrine falcon, snail kite, Mississippi kite, barred owl, eastern screech owl, and great-horned owl, among other species.

On March 16th, the center announced that a (1.0) bald eagle named Trouble passed away.

Audubon Center for Birds of Prey

On May 19th, the center announced they transferred a (0.1) swallow-tailed kite named Cleo to an unspecified facility in Wisconsin.

Audubon Center for Birds of Prey

On May 25th, the center announced they transferred (2.0) bald eagles named Leu and Sparky to the Abilene Zoo in Texas.

Audubon Center for Birds of Prey
 
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