Why are birds of prey important to the environment?
Well, several reasons. Number one is they help keep things in balance. Any kind of predatory animal is going to help keep things that have a tendency to overpopulate like insects or rodents or snakes in check. It’s a system of checks and balances, sort of. If you take a predator out of the equation, the things that they hunt are going to over populate and then there won’t be enough food for them, so they fit into that cog. Another very important feature about raptors is because they’re at the top of their food chain, whatever happens to them is eventually going to happen to us because we’re also at the top of our food chain. What got you interested in birds of prey? I have been interested in birds since I was as little kid. I got yelled at a lot in school because instead of paying attention to my math teacher, I was staring out the window at birds. What kind of educational background do you need to be a Raptor Specialist? Well, I kind of came into it in a circuitous way. I started volu
