Audubon Center for Birds of Prey
Raptor rescue and rehabilitation center with resident eagles, owls and hawks along a lakeside trail.
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About this audio guide
This guide to the Audubon Center for Birds of Prey near Orlando begins in June 1979, when gift shop manager Doris Mager climbed fifty feet up a pine tree to camp in an abandoned eagle's nest for nearly a week. You'll hear about the pulley rigged for food and pizza parties, the reporters she drew, and the vanishing Florida bald eagles she was trying to save from a pesticide thinning their eggshells. The guide follows her stunt into the fundraising campaign that reached Audubon chapters statewide.
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