Raptor Flight Barn Final Phase – Snowdon Wildlife Sanctuary, Inc.

This project helps support the completion of the final phase of construction for the SWS Flight Barn. The Flight Barn facility is 20′ X 50′ pole-barn structure, used for flight testing, housing and rehabilitating injured and/or orphaned birds of prey (falcons, hawks, owls, and eagles). The structure consists of 2 bays, each approximately 10′ wide X 50′ long. One bay will be used for flight testing birds, which is important for getting birds’ muscles strong after a long period of immobility so they can fly successfully when released back to the wild. The internal height of this bay will be 12 feet. The second bay will house (in individual enclosures called “mews”) recuperating birds and SWS resident educational birds of prey. This bay will have an internal height of 8-12 feet.