Fang
the Harris’s Hawk
Fang is a Harris’s Hawk who joined our education team in 2024 after retiring from a career as an abatement bird! Abatement is a form of pest control in which falconers use trained birds of prey to target pest animals. Fang hatched in captivity and was trained for her job in abatement from a very young age, and did an incredible job chasing gulls and other scavengers from landfills in Wisconsin. After all of her hard work, she is enjoying retirement in our education program!
Did you know?
Harris’s Hawks are among the most popular birds to use in the sport of falconry due to their social nature! These birds hunt cooperatively in the wild, so they adapt well to human hunting partners. In their natural habitat, they are sometimes even seen perching on top of one another and forming “stacks”, presumably to get a better vantage point while hunting.
You can support Fang by symbolically adopting her!