How to Train Your Raptor

Ogeechee Audubon board member James Fleullan learned to handle raptors at The Lamar Q. Ball Raptor Center at Georgia Southern University. James now lives in the Savannah area and volunteers at Oatland Wildlife Center, where he helps to train and socialize the Center’s eagles, hawks and owls. James will talk about the process of teaching a raptor to be comfortable around humans and to perch on its handler’s wrist so that it can be used for educational programs. He will be assisted by several of his star students and will introduce Wassaw the Bald Eagle.