Raptor Free Flight
Show runs Fridays, Saturdays, Sundays & Mondays at 10:00 a.m.
December 6, 2024 — March 31, 2025
(All dates subject to weather-related change)
PRO TIP
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.
Why is Raptor Free Flight a Must See?
- 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.
FUN HARRIS HAWK FACT:
Although the Harris's Hawk is found in the southern half of Arizona, southwest New Mexico, southern Texas, and all through Mexico and South America, cooperative hunting is only observed in the Sonoran Desert region of their range
See more fun facts here!
