Alaska Raptor Center

Alaska Raptor Center

4.8 209 Reviews
Erika Tedin
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This amazing place is part museum, part education center, and all rehabilitation. The raptors are all helped and given the best opportunity to heal. The people are incredible, and every time I get back to Sitka, I stop by. Small but so informative and so incredible!

Gayle Keck
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This center helps rescue and rehabilitate all types of birds, but specializes in bald eagles. They have some resident birds that couldn't survive in the wild, too. Their bald eagle flight-training center is particularly fascinating; it's where injured birds get their flight mojo back in a safe, enclosed environment. Fascinating to visit at mid-day feeding time.

Robert Ayzin
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One of the most amazing experiences you can have, anywhere. This remarkable center rehabilitates injured and traumatized raptors to enable them to return to their natural habitat in the wild, or to live freely on the grounds of the center. As amazing and inspiring as the eagles, owls and falcons are, the staff and volunteers are just as superb. Worth the trip if you happen to be in Sitka or on an Alaska cruise. The memories and education last a lifetime. Great gift shop too!

Jamie Dargusch
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Great establishment to nurture the raptors back to health and release back to the wild. They do a great thing here, it's worth it to not only help their cause but to see these beautiful creatures up close and personal. Can walk here easily from the totem park and make an adventure out of your time in Sitka.

Sandra Williamson
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They gave a talk while holding a 4 year old Eagle who is blind in one eye & has condition in other eye, making it impossible to return that bird to the wild. Having the bird there enhanced the talk by a lot, imo. They had lots of shirts, jackets, everything you'd expect to find there. It serves a fine purpose of returning health to eagles & other birds involved in accidents, crashes, etc. Definitely worth the stop.

Deb Bergeson-Graham
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I have not been there but have watched shows on Discovery with Disney+ and am SO impressed with what they do. Some of the shows have brought me to tears like the one with Fuzz Lightyear, a baby eagle who had to be euthanized. The work they do is AMAZING!!!

Roy Levow
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Unique and amazing place devoted to rehabilitation of injured raptors. Goal is to release them back into the wild. Those who cannot be released become permanent residents. Flight training center where birds learn to fly again after recovering from injury is particularly impressive. Birds that would not come near each other in the wild coexist peacefully in this closed space.

Jesse White
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We enjoyed our COVID-19 conscious tour of the Alaska Raptor Center in August 2020. Pricing is inline with other attractions like this we've experienced around the United States. The animal handler was knowledgeable and personable, you could tell they really loved their job. Spirit and Sitka, the bald eagles, were great ambassadors for their species. The development staff that has been working there for 11+ years was more robotic which was our least favorite part of the tour. We felt like it was an audio-tour rather than a tour with a live-person. Overall, a great hour in the Tongass.

Emily Robison
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We loved visiting the Raptor Center. We learned so much about Eagles and rehabilitation. We were super lucky to be there at the exact right time to see them release 2 eagles back into the wild. We also lucked out and finished up tight before two giant tour buses arrived. The place filled up pretty quickly after that. We walked through the Sitka National Historical Park and then walked to the Raptor Center. After that it was an easy walk back into town and back to our cruise ship.

Allison Capps
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What an amazing experience. We went for the 1:30pm tour. The space was clean, the staff was very friendly and educational with all of their explanations. Our educational bird was Spirit; watching her eat salmon eggs out of her handlers hand while making her little squaks was so cool! Highly recommend