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Snake River Raptor Fest 2025 - tickets now live!

Raptor Fest is our annual celebration of live birds of prey, with delicious food and drinks, informative booths from our non-profit partners, stalls from local vendors, and a line up of awesome live music. Tickets are free and are now live!

You can choose to make a donation to support our organization's education, outreach and research projects, programs, and events. Anyone who makes a donation when booking a Raptor Fest ticket will be entered into our raffle to win a Viper® HD 15-45x65 angled spotter, kindly donated by our event sponsor Vortex Optics.

Bands

We’re thrilled to be joined by two awesome local bands, who will provide the soundtrack for the day.

TALKS

(coming soon)

Partner booths

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Vendors

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Food & drink

(coming soon)

 
 

 Seed Collecting and Planting Days

To learn more about our habitat improvement program, click here. If you’d like to get involved with helping restore degraded habitats within the NCA, check out our upcoming events on our social media - Instagram, Facebook and LinkedIn - no experience required!

 
 

Raptor Fest 2024 Gallery

 
 

A huge thank you to our 2024 sponsors….

 
 

Raptor fest 2023

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VIRTUAL TALKS PROGRAM

All of the virtual talks from the 2023 Raptor Fest virtual talks program are available on the Birds of Prey NCA Partnership’s Facebook page. (More info and links below).

Why is Boise a Special Place for Raptors?

The board members of the Birds of Prey NCA Partnership shared introductions, then gave a presentation about what makes Boise such a special place for raptors.

Martha Brabec, Ecologist for the City of Boise

Martha gave a presentation about her work coordinating habitat restoration projects and removing invasive plant species in the Boise foothills. She’ll also introduce us to the City of Boise’s carbon sequestration project.

Tim Hauck, Condor Reintroduction Program Director for The Peregrine Fund

Tim gave a presentation about the wild California condor population in Arizona and Utah, which is managed by Boise-based non-profit The Peregrine Fund. Tim will talk about conservation issues facing this population of endangered birds, as well as the devastating impact of a recent avian influenza outbreak within the population.

 

Venue Information:

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Indian Creek Winery

1000 N McDermott Rd.

Kuna, ID 83634

Getting there:

From Boise take I-84 west to the Kuna/Meridian exit and follow Hwy 69 South for approximately 10 min. Turn right on Columbia and follow this until it crosses the tracks and dead ends on Greenhurst. Take a left on Greenhurst and an immediate right onto McDermott. Follow McDermott South for 3 miles until you see the winery on your left about 1/2 mile south of Deer Flat.