Traveling home after a flight into Seattle’s Sea-Tac airport, you might share a ride on the shuttle with a Red-tailed Hawk! To protect passengers, planes, and birds, airport biologists Steve Osmek and Bud Anderson capture raptors for relocation away from the airport. Then, as a public service, Bellair Charters of Bellingham, Washington, carries the birds to safer foraging grounds. After weighing, measuring, banding, and tagging the hawks, Bud (pictured here with a Red-tailed Hawk) releases them in the wide-open country of the Skagit Valley.
