Audubon Center for Birds of Prey

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.