Raptor Free Flights at the Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum

Raptor Free Flight

We recommend that guests arrive at the Museum at least 20 minutes prior to the show to allow time to park and walk to the demonstration areas.

Please note: Due to the inability to social distance masks are required at the Raptor Free Flight demonstration site.

You can feel the brush of feathers as these amazing aerialists whiz by
The birds fly completely untethered, without any jesses (leg straps) and mostly without bracelets
You will enjoy the show in the natural beauty of the Sonoran Desert while a narrator describes the birds’ attributes, habitats, and behaviors
Only birds native to the Sonoran Desert region are flown
The show features the only raptor species in the world that hunt as a family, using strategy (like wolves)

You may see flying birds of prey like chihuahuan ravens, great horned owls, caracaras, red-tailed hawks, gray hawks, and Harris’s hawks.

Please note: There is never a guarantee that a certain species will fly during any given show, due to weather, season, vet checks, etc.

Most common large hawk, can be found in every U.S state and almost all habitats
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