In only six years*, we have reached nearly 26 thousand people and 420 programs all over the northern Arizona region in venues such as the Grand Canyon National Park, Red Rock State Park and Museum of Northern Arizona.
Our Flying Team has touched the lives of thousands of children for STEM Night, Flagstaff Festival of Science, Discovery Camp at the Museum of Northern Arizona and in dozens of classrooms throughout the region.
Our male American Kestrel, Finley, sat on hundreds of children’s gloved hands inspiring our next generation to care about their natural world and touching their hearts forever.
The entire IRFC Flying Team has touched the hearts of thousands of people and changed their minds about raptors’ intrinsic value in the world, inspiring them to make the world a better place for them.
*Two of those years were during a global pandemic!
OUR IMPACT
Aylen, our female American Kestrel with a young raptor fan at the Arboretum Flagstaff. October 2022
Photo: Steve Comstock
Flagstaff STEM City Celebration 2018 at NAU’s Walkup Skydome
25K+
PEOPLE REACHED
Through our educational programs, outreach, and experiences, adults and children have learned about raptor ecology and conservation issues through up-close personal interactions with our Flying Team. They have learned the history of Falconry and the important role falconers played in saving raptor species we enjoy today.
Falconry Program during the 2023 North American Falconers’ Association Field Meet at the Kearney Public Library in Nebraska.
In partnership with Nature’s Educators’ Founder, Devin Jaffe
420+
PROGRAMS GIVEN
We have developed unique interactive programs that cover raptor ecology, environmental policies, falconry and conservation with actions for the public to implement. Our Flying Team accompanies all our classroom programs and outreach events. Additionally, our programs are designed and delivered using science based data and lived experience gathered in a unique ‘boots on the ground’ approach to ecology through the culture of falconry.
Lennox, our male American Kestrel with a young raptor fan at the Arboretum Flagstaff. Summer 2023
3K+
CHILDREN REACHED
We have done three Summer Camps for the Museum of Northern Arizona, week-long intensive learning about raptor ecology, falconry and conservation. Each camper goes home with a photo of themselves holding Finley! We have reached countless children through classroom programs and outreach events such as our monthly programs at the Arboretum Flagstaff and the dozens of programs we donate throughout the week of the Flagstaff Festival of Science.
All data as of December 2023