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The Eagle Huntress–A Film Review

10,000 Birds

She is The Eagle Huntress , the young Kazakh star of this captivating film, and her joy comes from a life integrally connected to nature. In Act 1, we meet Aisholpan and her family—her eagle hunter father, Rys, her hard working mother, Almagul, her younger sister and brother, and her grandfather, also once an eagle hunter.

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How To (And Not To) Transport Wild Birds

10,000 Birds

Two wildlife biologists brought me a Golden Eagle inside a metal pipe.” The finders of an adult Barred Owl brought to Kathryn Dudeck in Georgia thought he had a wing fracture, so they wrapped the entire bird in the plastic protective wrap used by landscape companies and taped it up. So he brought the little Shearwater in a beehive.” “Two