Northern Trek - Bald Eagle Exhibit

This is located in Wolf Wilderness.

Curious as to what seperates the public from the Eagle?

zooman said:

Curious as to what seperates the public from the Eagle?

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There's nothing that separates the eagle from the public.

Are the birds flighted?

A walkthrough with Bald Eagles? Interesting.

There are bald eagle aviaries at the Woodland Park Zoo, Cleveland Zoo, Oregon Zoo, Northwest Trek Wildlife Park, etc, with all of those exhibits having absolutely nothing between the visitors and birds. It's become common practice with eagles and other birds of prey that cannot fly properly or be re-released into the wild. Northwest Trek has bald eagles, golden eagles and at least 2-3 species of owl all in exhibits with zero barriers between the birds and visitors.

The Santa Barbara zoo has a walk through aviary with hawks (ssp?), but it was closed last time I went.

If the bird's wings are damaged, I can understand that. But I'd be just a little concerned about some raptors with full mobility having access to the public.

The bird is unable to fly, it's wings are clipped often. It's one of my favorite sections of the zoo. There used to be a raven in there too, but it's gone.

Tragopan said:

The bird is unable to fly, it's wings are clipped often. It's one of my favorite sections of the zoo. There used to be a raven in there too, but it's gone.

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I can't believe you can put Bald Eagles and Ravens together in the same Exhibit.