2008 Bird of Prey Educational Workshop...

November 10-14 2008

 

This intensive week-long workshop will cover many topics including:

  • Establishing your own program - permits, insurance, facilities, staff & volunteers
  • Working with and training your bird - manning and positive reinforcement, desensitizing
  • Choosing the correct species to work with
  • Transportation - crates, permits, driving, flying, shipping
  • Housing - mews, jump boxes, A-frames, flight cages, climate, hot wire, substrates
  • Perch types - bow, platform, screen, etc. - which perch works best for what species
  • Diets - food types, frozen vs live, storage, prep, raising food colonies, vitamins
  • Training your birds for flying - weight management, base weights, target weights, flyer food

Our staff believes the only way to learn is through the hands-on experience of doing things yourself. Therefore, at our workshop you will also:

  • Make jesses, anklets, leashes
  • Practice imping feathers
  • Experience coping and trimming of a raptor
  • Participate in simple public speaking games and learn how different elements make a difference
  • Fly a Harris Hawk and Barn Owl with WBS staff
  • Use telemetry to track an escaped "bird"
  • Help train a new behavior with a White-necked Raven (continues through the week)
  • "Be the Bird" in our training game
  • Participate in emergency medical care and do a gross necropsy on a raptor
 
Download the registration form HERE.

The workshop also includes an extensive tour of WBS' facilities and opportunities to see birds and housing up close.

Reservations required. Please call early - workshop has a minimum of 10 participants and a maximum of 20.

Workshop fee is $650 per person (this includes all lunches) with a $100 non-refundable deposit due by 9/1/08, balance due by 10/1/08. If registering after 9/1/08 the price is $950. For more information, contact Laura MacLeod at 636-225-4390, extension 104 or at wbsevents@aol.com.

Transportation to and from St. Louis, hotel accommodations and breakfast & dinner are the responsibility of each participant

Cancellation policy - if participant cancels after 10/21/08, 50% of fee is non-refundable