Raptor Enrichment Ideas
Need some Enrichment inspiration?
Check out our Pintrest Enrichment Gallery and our Perching Gallery.
Online Resources
Online Resources
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Raptor TAG Facebook Page
Follow us on Facebook! Every Saturday, we highlight enrichment or training under the hashtag #EnrichmentSaturday. Check out our page to search the hashtag and see lots of great photos and videos of people doing great things to enrich their raptors! Like the Facebook page by clicking below. |
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Enrichment Scheduling and ASsessment
Enrichment Scheduling & Assessment
Enrichment Scheduling from NRICH
Sample this enrichment calendar using five types of enrichment:
Environmental: changing or adding to the animal's habitat
Feeding: presenting food to an animal in different ways
Manipulation: providing items that can be manipulated by the animal
Puzzle: requiring an animal to solve simple problems to access food or other rewards
Sensory: stimulating animal's visual, olfactory, auditory, tactile, and taste senses
Social: providing the opportunity to interact with other animals, either conspecifics or interspecifics
Training: training animals with positive reinforcement or habituation
*We recommend printing it out and laminating it so it can be used with wet erase markers!*
Sample this enrichment calendar using five types of enrichment:
Environmental: changing or adding to the animal's habitat
Feeding: presenting food to an animal in different ways
Manipulation: providing items that can be manipulated by the animal
Puzzle: requiring an animal to solve simple problems to access food or other rewards
Sensory: stimulating animal's visual, olfactory, auditory, tactile, and taste senses
Social: providing the opportunity to interact with other animals, either conspecifics or interspecifics
Training: training animals with positive reinforcement or habituation
*We recommend printing it out and laminating it so it can be used with wet erase markers!*
Ethograms
From NRICH: "Is your enrichment effective? Ethograms are simple measuring tools to determine the efficacy of your enrichment. Ethograms can be modified to include species-specific behaviors that are known to be aggressive, play, social, reproductive, etc. Ethograms are great projects for volunteers and interns!"
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Sample Avian Ethogram
Author: Lincoln Park Zoo |
Podcasts
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This Training Tidbits podcast interview with Margaret Rousser will help you find more time in your day for enrichment, training, and overall welfare.
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Training Tidbits podcast interview with Hilda Tresz – Behavioural Enrichment and International Animal Welfare coordinator at Phoenix Zoo/Mentor for the Jane Goodall institute.
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Examples
The following are examples of enrichment that may be appropriate for birds, as well as an overview of safety issues that should be considered in the implementation of enrichment.
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Download a google doc of the full list below.
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Download this Browse List prepared by the AAZK Enrichment Committee and reviewed by the Association of Zoological Horticulture
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Exhibit enrichment
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• Areas that promote free flight.
• Variety of perching sizes and locations (re-perching periodically can stimulate activity) and sunbathing perches. • Live plants. • Plant trimmings for shade, screening and rain cover. • Grass flats. (See: https://pin.it/pzw43shcgi2ze3) • Water features: deep or shallow pools, running water, moats, sprinklers, etc. • Variations in ground level (i.e., sentry mounds). • Variety of substrates (shredded paper, pine shavings, pine straw). • Sand, dirt, peat moss for dust baths. • Nest boxes, logs, platforms, burrows (birds can “excavate” their own nest log if shavings or mulch are placed inside). • Mud for nest building. • Variety of feeding stations. |
• Areas for escape from aggressive conspecifics or other species in mixed exhibits.
• Live Christmas trees (untreated/unsprayed) • Swinging/dynamic perches (very popular!) • Perching wrapped with different textures (vet/medi wrap, sisal rope, astroturf, carpet) • varying perch/branch sizes • Other perching ideas, visit our Pinterest board: https://pin.it/q2mii4tojbpbct • Wood wool in dry pool • magazines for shredding • register/receipt rolls tied down or fixed on outside of fence • clumps of sod • piles of leaves • Rotting logs to “squish” • novel substrates- much, sod, pea gravel, etc... |
dietary enrichment
Food Enrichment for Vultures
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novel enrichment/social enrichment
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