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(LOREN BENOIT/Hagadone News Network) Eagle expert Jane Veltkamp, the owner and operator of Birds of Prey Northwest, holds a female bald eagle before placing it into the House of the Bald Eagle aviary, owned by the Coeur d’Alene Tribe. The Tribe was presented with proper permits in October by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to receive the four injured eagles to help steward the birds who can’t survive in the wild on their own.
(LOREN BENOIT/Hagadone News Network) Jane Veltkamp, owner and operator of Birds of Prey Northwest, carries a golden eagle to its aviary Wednesday afternoon. Veltkamp will train Coeur d’Alene Tribe members how to feed and care for the birds.
(LOREN BENOIT/Hagadone News Network) A golden eagle is seen inside its aviary at Birds of Prey Northwest Wednesday afternoon. The golden eagle came from southern Idaho and has an injured leg and is the Coeur d’Alene Tribe’s first golden eagle.
(LOREN BENOIT/Hagadone News Network) Eagle expert and federally recognized U.S. Fish and Wildlife biologist Jane Veltkamp, center, passes a golden eagle feather that fell off the eagle to Coeur d’Alene Tribe Elder Alfred Nomee for the Tribe’s keeping. The only people to legally have eagle feathers are federally recognized tribes, which display feathers on their regalia during religious and cultural ceremonies.
