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Rehabilitating raptors

Patrick Cote/Daily Inter Lake | Hagadone News Network | UPDATED 11 years, 7 months AGO
by Patrick Cote/Daily Inter Lake
| May 17, 2014 9:00 PM

Keith Kratzer of Montana Wild Wings Recovery Center holds a red-tailed hawk during an open house for the center Saturday afternoon at the Fish, Wildlife and Parks headquarters in Kalispell. The event had educational raptor presentations as well as a silent auction to help raise money for the volunteer-run organization. The birds shown by Montana Wild Wings were recovered with injuries too severe to survive in the wild after rehabilitation.

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