Raptors Around Us learning program rescheduled

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CAVENDISH — The Conservation Committee of the Cavendish Community and Conservation Association (CCCA) has rescheduled The Raptors Around Us, after it was cancelled due to a snowstorm.

All are invited to join them at 1 p.m. Wednesday, March 7 at the Cavendish Town Elementary School on Main Street in Proctorsville to learn about the owls, hawks, falcons and eagles all around the area. The Vermont Institute of Natural Science (VINS) will present an afternoon of learning for all. Visitors can meet captive owls, and perhaps falcons, and hear about their habits and lives.

The presentation is part of the ongoing Walk and Talk series of environmental and conservation events, and is open to residents of all area towns. Come meet live ambassador raptors from VINS and learn about their winter habits, predator-prey relationships and the interdependence of the systems that support life. This first-hand encounter enables participants to understand the defining characteristics that make a bird a raptor and to observe their adaptations for life as a predator on the wing.

VINS’ mission promotes education as a way to change attitudes and maintain a healthy environment. Headquartered in Quechee, VINS houses hawks, eagles, falcons, owls, and other birds of prey in 17 state-of-the-art raptor enclosures. The site also has two songbird aviaries, a Welcome Center and Nature Store, a Center for Wild Bird Rehabilitation, a Center for Environmental Education, and the Center for Environmental Research from which operates an active Citizen Science program.

For more information about the program, call Claire Walker at (802) 226-7259. Refreshments will be served.