A visit to a bird sanctuary essay
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Answer: visited the World Bird Sanctuary in Valley Park, Missouri on a rainy, snow covered day in January. I always love going to World Bird Sanctuary because I’ve always been interested in wildlife and conservation. I guess I can say it’s in my blood. In fact I wouldn’t be here if it without World Bird Sanctuary because that’s where my parents met. Back them my dad was volunteering there in my mom was an intern. So it goes without saying that my family and I love wildlife especially birds of prey which are hawks, owls, falcons and eagles.
I’ve been going to World Bird Sanctuary since I was a little kid. Some of the people my dad volunteered with are now staff members at World Bird Sanctuary including the director Jeff Meshach.
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Also in the nature center, I met Twig, a twenty year old Screech Owl. His life span is already four times that of wild Screech Owls which generally only live five years. Meshach says that their education birds commonly live two to three times as long as birds in the wild, but it is rare for them to live three or four times longer than their wild counter parts like Twig. Several species of parrots and some reptiles were also on display in the nature center. Among the parrot species were two Thick-billed Parrots. Baumann and Meshach told me that Thick-billed Parrots are one of the two or three parrot species in the world that can survive in very cold weather. Thick-billed Parrots are now extinct in the US, but can still be found in the wild in Mexico. I also got to see two of the weathering areas, where the trained birds of prey are perched during the day, on the property where the Bateleur eagles were displaying by puffing out their feathers and holding up their wings and making loud “caw” calls. Their bright red face and feet stood out against their black and gray bodies in the snow covered weathering area. All the birds in the weathering areas are tethered to their perches in a falconry style. Falconry equipment is familiar to me my dad is a Missouri Falconer. The birds in the weathering yards have soft leather anklets around their ankles with small strips of leather called jesses connecting the birds feet to as swivel and leash which is secured to its perch.