Annual Spaghetti Dinner & Silent Auction
April 18, 2026
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“The Eagles Have Landed” Handmade Quilt Raffle
An Eagle Quilt that will help care for all the eagles that come in injured, broken, or orphaned!
Please buy tickets for this gorgeous quilt, made by Board Member Steve Benn. Proceeds from the sale of the tickets will be used to care for both the sick and injured in need of rehabilitation, as well as our 13 avian ambassadors.
Go to https://blackhillsraptorcenter.rallyup.com/eaglequilt (or the button, below) to buy your tickets. They will remain available until Saturday, May 2 at 6 p.m. Live drawing for the winner will be held May 2 at 6:30 p.m.
March 29, 2026
Our beloved Red-tailed Hawk, Elise, has passed on to a better place where she is flying and wild once again.
Most of you are aware that Elise was likely the oldest documented Red-tailed Hawk at age 36 years and 11 months. One pressure sore on her foot turned into five sores over the course of last week, and the team that knew and loved her best decided it was time to let her go.
We have shared Elise’s story in the past, and it will be a long time before her story fully comes to an end. It was bittersweet to move our organization’s operations into the new rehabilitation hub and say goodbye to her in the same day, but her legacy will live on in this place and with these people.
Elise took part in hundreds of education programs in the Black Hills, beginning way back in the early 1990’s at Reptile Gardens. She was one of the Founding Four Feathers, the first raptor ambassadors at the beginning of the Black Hills Raptor Center in 2010. She now joins Icarus, Boo, and Hendrix, closing out a chapter for the BHRC as another one begins.
Our mission is to conserve and protect native birds of prey and their natural habitats through education, rehabilitation, and research.
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About Black Hills Raptor Center
Who We Are:
The Black Hills Raptor Center is an all volunteer group, managed by an 8 person board of directors. We are a not-for-profit organization with a 501 (c) 3 status from the Internal Revenue Service…
Mission Statement:
The mission of the Black Hills Raptor Center is to conserve and protect native birds of prey and their natural habitats through education, rehabilitation, and research.
What We Do:
The Black Hills Raptor Center provides 125-150 educational programs annually using live raptors. We present in classrooms, at youth programs, in the community, and for special events…
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The idea of developing BHRC (Black Hills Raptor Center) began on September 2010. That is when John Halverson and Maggie Engler set about the task of reducing “nature deficit disorder” in their corner of the world…
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