Few people know more about Carolina Raptor Center’s history than Mathias Engelmann, Senior Rehabilitation Coordinator, long-time volunteer and friend of the organization.

During his first semester as a biology student at UNCC, Mathias came across an exhibit organized by...

When their daughter dissected an owl pellet in elementary school, Brian Hughes and his wife were intrigued. She brought a pamphlet home from school that afternoon that said the owl pellet came from a local nonprofit organization, Carolina Raptor Center. Relatively new...

CHARLOTTE: Carolina Raptor Center announced today an initiative to raise $200,000 from Charlotte area Eagle Scouts to build the Bald Eagle Aviary on its new campus.

“CRC has a legacy of collaboration with the Boy Scouts over the past thirty years as the site of more th...

Carolina Raptor Center is pleased to announce that the Longleaf Fund, a grant program at Foundation For The Carolinas (FFTC), has made a $50,000 grant to support Our Quest: The Campaign for Carolina Raptor Center.

“The Longleaf Fund’s commitment to building community an...

Carolina Raptor Center announced today that The Cannon Foundation has made a $100,000 grant to support Our Quest: The Campaign for Carolina Raptor Center. The grant supports the construction of a new Raptor Trail that will build community and increase access to physica...

As Bob Spillane approaches his 70th birthday in June, he is contemplative. He has had a long and rewarding career in the textile industry, but always had a love of nature; specifically, he has had a lifelong love for birds. “I had a great career – but if I had to do it...

For Crandall Bowles, supporting Carolina Raptor Center’s Our Quest Campaign was a natural extension of her family’s lasting commitment to conservation in the Piedmont region.

Crandall Bowles’s mother Anne Springs Close was always “more nature-oriented than city-oriented...

Carolina Raptor Center made a major campaign announcement and released its most recent Bald Eagle patient on Thursday, April 6 at 10 am at the Swimming Beach at Lake Norman State Park in Troutman, NC.

On March 17, Carolina Raptor Center received word that the organizati...

In the first grade, Cooper Couden climbed a tree outside of his elementary school and found himself face-to-face with an angry American Robin, protective of her nest full of eggs. He fell out of that tree but picked himself up with a newfound interest – birds. At his t...

Perhaps it should not be surprising, but Sadie Casper’s favorite bird is a vulture at Carolina Raptor Center.  After all, they share the same first name.
 
A 5th grader at Cotswold Elementary School, Sadie is a regular participant in CRC’s programs.  In December, she r...