Cascades Raptor Center, Wildlife rehabilitation center in Eugene, Oregon.
The Cascades Raptor Center is a rehabilitation facility for birds of prey located near Spencer's Butte in southwest Eugene, Oregon. The site hosts around forty education birds that live there year-round, while the hospital section treats between four hundred and seven hundred injured raptors each year.
The Cascades Raptor Center was founded in 1987 as a 501(c)(3) non-profit nature center and wildlife hospital. At first its birds traveled to schools and public events, and the site was closed to visitors. In early 1994 the center moved to its current Eugene location and opened to the public, adding a long-term home for birds that cannot be released because of injury or imprinting on humans.
The center's name comes from the Cascade Range, the mountain chain that runs through Oregon and Washington. Its education programs carry names like "Walk on the Wild Side" and "Reading with Raptors", and staff bring live birds to classrooms and public events, a practice the center began in 1987 before it ever admitted visitors.
The wildlife hospital operates daily from eight in the morning until six in the evening and accepts injured raptors from across Oregon. The outdoor enclosures housing the education birds are accessible via easy walking paths that wind through forested grounds.
The center's resident birds include two nonnative species, the Eurasian eagle-owl and the Saker falcon, alongside native Oregon raptors. In 2014 the hospital treated nearly 300 injured birds. As of March 2025 it housed 30 individual birds from 21 species.
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