Red Tail

As long as I remember the Kellogg Bird Sanctuary's hosted an ever-changing handful of injured raptors. Most have some sort of wing damage and all are unable to live in the wild. At Kellogg they live in large cages which have been set up around one of the ponds.

The current set includes several owls, a bald eagle, and two Red-Tailed Hawks. The birds are cared for by the staff, and are definitely on display. Evidently some are used as teaching aids in presentations, though I don't recall ever seeing such use.

The injured birds arrive by a variety of methods. Evidently everyone half-way local who cares for injured wildlife is aware that the Sanctuary can and does have facilities to care for injured birds. Each bird's cage features a prominent sign explaining how it came to be a guest at the sanctuary, an estimate of its age, and other information.

When I was a kid these broken birds fascinated me. Nowadays I'm just glad they're being cared for, and sad that they have to live in cages.