Event Details
With the help of Falconer Courtney Douds of Raptor Jawns, get up close and personal with two of Germantown's native birds of prey - a red-tailed hawk and a screech owl. Learn about each bird’s natural history and biology, and the roles they play in our local ecosystem!
Raptor Jawns was founded by Courtney Douds, a Master Falconer with over twenty years of experience working with birds of prey. Courtney became obsessed with falconry after seeing the Royal Tenenbaums in theaters as a child, sparking a lifelong passion.
She has volunteered at rehabilitation and research centers focusing on raptors, worked as an instructor at Ireland's School of Falconry, worked in abatement –falconry pest control– on a garbage dump in New Jersey, hunted with the Kazakh berkutchi golden eagle hunters of Mongolia, and has hunted with red-tails in the United States since becoming a licensed falconer in 2011.
