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We’ll give you a hundred reasons to love vultures.🖤 Celebrate nature’s cleanup crew with us during a special program dedicated to vultures this Saturday morning at the Center, including flight demonstrations and a closer look at why these birds are so important. Saturday, September 5 at 10:00am 🎟️in profile 📍 Center for Birds of Prey . . . #centerforbirdsofprey #vultureawareness

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Vultures are some of our favorite species to talk about. They are fascinating, incredibly well adapted and far more important to the natural world than most people realize. In this throwback, Stephen introduces the Lesser Yellow-headed Vulture and shares just a few of the dozens of things that make these birds so remarkable. International Vulture Awareness Day is tomorrow, and we are celebrating at the Center! Join us at 10 AM for a special program dedicated to vultures, including birds in flight and a chance to learn more about these incredible species. We promise, you will leave looking at vultures a little differently. 🎟️ Tickets are just $25 (less for kids). Link in our profile. Come celebrate vultures with us. 🖤 #centerforbirdsofprey #vultureawareness

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This Red-tailed Hawk’s release was a big one. Found critically ill in a backyard in Beaufort, this hawk had already endured more than we knew. He arrived with severe anemia and signs of rodenticide exposure, with a red blood cell level of just 11%. As our Avian Medical team worked to stabilize him, he slowly improved. But once he was strong enough for radiographs, we discovered something else: he had also been shot. Multiple pellets were visible, but incredibly, none had broken a bone. After everything he had endured, his strength returned and his red blood cell level climbed to 39%(healthy levels are between 35% to 55%). Just 20 days after arriving at the Center, he was back in the wild. 🦅 An incredible recovery and an incredible job by our Avian Medical team. #hawktok #centerforbirdsofprey #avianmedicine #redtailedhawk