 This is 'Bo' the curious steppe eagle.
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 Bo the steppe eagle is watching some circling buzzards that are above the birds of prey park
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 Steppe Eagle 'Bo' showing his hunting instinct (yarak), you can see this by the feathers on the back of his neck.
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 Steppe Eagle 'Bo' basking in the sun and watching what the other guests are doing.
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 Bo posing for a picture.
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 'Bo' is a very curious steppe eagle and finds almost everything interesting.
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 This is Doenja the chili eagle. This raptor is also know as a 'black-chested eagle-buzzard'.
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 Getting ready to fly the chili eagle of a cold Winter afternoon.
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 Waiting for Doenja to settle down on the gauntlet and confirming the telemetry is switched on.
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 Ready for flight, holding doenja up so she can get a better view of the terrain as she prepares to take off.
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 Doenja having a good nibble at the gauntlet.
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 Making sure Doenja is at ease with the surroundings.
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 Doenja making a low approach over the ground
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 Doenja the chili eagle gliding low over the ground.
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 A close-up of Doenja the chili eagle.
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 Chili eagle Doenja sitting on her block at the falconry.
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 Doenja on her block.
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 Chilean eagle lands on falconers glove.
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 Eagle sits proudly on tree branch
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 Inbound Chilean eagle
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 This Bald Egle is part of the breeding program at Falconcrest Falconry.
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 This Bald Eagle lives at Falconcrest Falconry in The Netherlands.
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 Chilliarend in boom
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 Golden Eagle in dive to grab prey.
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 Valkenier met chiliarend.
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 Doenja has seen a rabbit in a field and is locked onto it.
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 Showing Doenja the park and it's surroundings, she is still a little hestitant, so easy does it.
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 This bird is heavy, and after showing her the park, my hand and arm are quite lame.
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 Golden Eagle flying past.
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 Training the chili eagle to sit comfortably on the falconeers gauntlett take a lot of time and tender loving care.
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 Training the chili eagle at the falconry.
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 Doenja taking a break to do some sight seeing from her perch in the tree.
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 Bald Eagle flies overhead.
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