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to the birds. And this is in a good way too, because these
people take care of our birds. We have Daniel in here with who seems
an education program manager with the sut Navy and Research Center. We got wild
bru coming up, Yeah, we sure do. Wild Brus coming up and
just around the corner this coming Saturday, the twenty sixth, So if you
hadn't got your tickets, it's really time to step on that ball. But
it's gonna be a great time. Wild Brew is the original craft brewery and
food tasting event in Tulsa, just about an hour southeast here in Bartlesville at
the Cox Convention Center. We're gonna have a couple hundred different bruize available for
you, lots of lots of great smells and tastes and foods, and most
importantly, you're gonna come out and meet some of our birds, some of
our education birds from the Sutton Center are going to be on site now,
Daniel, when we were talking in the green room, and folks, we
really don't have a green room. We just say that so we can kind
of like pretend we're on real tv U. That you've got like three birds
maybe more that you take out to the different schools or two different education programs
that right right there on your arm, and they're really pretty cool. Tell
us about the big owl you have. Yeah, absolutely, we got a
half a dozen birds out there. If some of them are definitely more charismatic
than others. If you've been out to our center, you've probably met cricket.
Crickets are great horned owls, one of the biggest owls in North America
you're gonna see. And uh and we've got them right here, right here
in Bartlesville. And uh and he does great, just kind of hangs out,
spins ahead a little bit because how you like me? Now? Yep,
Absolutely, he's a character. He's got lots of personality and makes all
those chirps and hoots and hells and well not hows, but they you know,
it makes all the typical Alinoises there, you go, nothing out of
the ordinary there now tell us about the big red hawk. Oh yeah,
So Artemis. Artemis is our red tailed hawk. She's a female, and
she's loves to come out to schools and events. She's one of my favorite
birds to work with. And uh and like I said, she's going to
be with us out there at wild Brew. But if you don't catch us
there, I'm out in the community. I'm I'm at your schools, I'm
I'm at your stuff like that. Yeah, if we get regular invitations.
Uh. And I love bringing her out because she's, like I said,
just such an amazing raptor. Oh man, goodness shakes. And then you've
got this great, big golden pheasant. We do we do. So we
have a golden pheasant. Her name's Turbo. It's very fast, and Turbo
does flight displays for us, very non threatening as you can imagine. The
hawk is big and has those sharp talents, but Turbos the all the other
end of the spectrum, and it's very soft and gentle. And so I
can come to the younger kids and classrooms and introduce them and get to show
them characteristics of our birds and about flight and nature. And in a way
that's very very easy to write. To Despite the name, I understand Turbo
is just so cool around kids. She often enjoys being petted by it.
Yep, yep. If you're really nice and slow and calm, then we
do little displays where they'll walk along the class the tables and you can literally
be inchous from this bird and if you're real nice, you might get a
petter back. But always ask permission first. Yeah, that's yeah, it's
the rule of film there. You kid to keep your thumb too. But
you know, but we're talking about the Sutton Avian Research Center in wild Brew.
That's the fun part. But the real nuts and bolts of what goes
on at the Suttin Avian Center is that you say, birds that are virtually
on the edge of extinction, and the story of the American eagle is just
legendary. Here we saved it right here in Bartlesville. That's it's a It's
absolutely what we're most well known for. The whole idea with the Sutton Center
is finding cooperative conservation solutions. That means cooperating with anybody that wants to save
birds in natural habitats. The eagle story is an amazing one because we effectively
lost the eagle in Oklahoma. We didn't have native nesting eagles for some time
and it's people. People decided we wanted to do something about that, so
we worked with other agencies other states and brought eagles back. We went from
having zero nesting pairs in Oklahoma now there's over three hundred nesting pairs that it's
just blows my mind. You can't imagine in Oklahoma Waterway without an eagle in
that vicinity. And it's because of work that was done right here in Bartlesville,
which is absolutely amazing. It is, it truly is. And now
we've got what the masked Bob white that we're working with right we do,
we do. We've got two species that we're working with right now, kind
of same situation, birds that have really had impacts in their natural environments that
have caused them to struggle and we want to fix that. So the masked
Bob white is a bob white quail, not too dissimilar from your northern bobwhite
that people know in this area. If you might be familiar those northern bobweight,
same kind of story where we're seeing a decline. We're not seeing as
many of those as we used to but the mass bob whites are the ones
that are on the brink of extinction. People actually thought they were they were
gone. We had years where nobody could find one in the wild, and
now we have a third of the world's population here helping to bring the species
back from from extinction. I remember being a child in the sixties. You
know, you could hear the bob white whistling oh yeah, the job or
all the time, and then about the time I would probably get close to
twenty, it's like, where did that bird go? Yep? Absolutely,
yeah, they just kind of well, hey, so we're nice to bring
them back. Yep. And it all comes down to habitat if people taking
care of the properties that they own and and and making sure that it's a
habitable situation for these birds, they can absolutely thrive in this area. This
is where we used to have them. Yeah, by god, this is
great. We know we've got this thing called the prairie chicken. I understand
it's not really a chicken, but we call it that because well that's what
we call it. So what's the story on this thing? Absolutely so,
Ornithologists and people around the world tend to name things by how we see it
a prairie chicken. It's about a size of a chicken. Giver take a
little bit. They run on the ground like a chicken, but not a
chicken at all. They're actually a grouse ground bird that's native to this area.
These birds are found more to the north and west of US now,
but we still see the lesser prairie chicken, grater prairie chicken. Just amazing
birds that if you've never seen one, go to our website and look,
because it's you would not imagine something like this being here unless you've seen it.
But yeah, they're they're here, and we're breeding a subspecies to Outwater's
prairie chicken for releases story. A bird that used to do really well and
now needs a little bit of help. Ideally, we just get him started
and let nature do the rest. It's great that we have a starting point
with you guys. Absolutely abscellently. Now this is the cool thing about Daniel.
Yeah, yeah, of course he gets could go out in Boo the
show at the school and at your clubs and stuff like this. But you
didn't start out as the guy going out to the schools and the clubs.
How did you begin there? Sure? Absolutely So when I got my start
at the Setonavian Research Center, it was actually an internship. I came in
and said, hey, I hear about the great work you guys are doing.
I want in let me, let me, let me help, let
me do a little bit of work for the summer. Let's see how this
goes. And I started working with that Outwaters Prairie chicken program, with that
captive breeding and release program. I was so enthralled. I absolutely loved it.
And when the breeding season was over, I said, hey, tell
me about these bob whites, And before you know what, I'm working with
another species. So I'm working with two of the most endangered species in North
America. And I'm just absolutely blown away by it. And lo and behold,
there's opportunity opens up in education, and I'm like, hey, let
me talk to people about this. I've had such a great experience and I
feel like I can really share this message. So that's that's what I get
to do. Now. I've got some birds that I train up, and
I go out and spread the message of conservation in the work that we're doing
right here. Well, that is fantastic. And of course we do have
the wild brew which, by the way, is the biggest fundraiser I understand
for the Set Research Center, and this is where we have a lot of
fun raising funds. Yep. Absolutely, So this is the twenty fifth anniversary
of wild Brew, and wild Brew is absolutely how you can help fund conservation
research and education. If you like seeing these birds out out at your events
and out in your schools, this is how you can help fund that.
Go online wildbrew dot org. You can purchase your tickets there. You've got
general admission tickets which are still available. We haven't sold out yet. It
is a limited number, so if we do sell out, which does happen,
Yeah, you don't want to be left waiting at the door, that's
for sure, because you can only smell the food, you can't taste it.
Absolutely, we're gonna take a quick break and we'll have a little bit
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community connection. We're talking with Daniel harrisy is the education program manager with the
Sun Navy and Research Center. And Wild Brew is coming up. What do
we say about wild Brew? Wild Brew? You got a drink a beer,
save a bird card to wild Brew. And again this is going to
be down at the Business Center in Tulsa. Because you know this has grown,
like you said, bigger than an airplane. Hangar uh, this this
is so huge you've had to double or triple the space. Yep. Absolutely,
we've had to expand and get bigger and bigger spaces. We've expanded into
two huge areas in the Cox Convention Center. Once you come in, you're
gonna be greeted with the site, smells and sounds of an absolute party.
And and they'll be birds and then will be birds on top of it.
I'll be out there some of my education birds will be out there. In
addition to the birds who've already talked about, we've got our turkeys will be
out there. Wild turkeys are part of Oklahoma, you bet without a doubt,
and you're gonna see some of our captive turkeys. U they're education birds
that come out as well. Know they're nuts, they're absolutely crazy. They're
vocal competitors. So as loud as I can be, they're gonna try to
talk over me, and as loud as the music will be, you'll you'll
hear them from the other side of the room. They're great. Oh,
this is gonna be fun. So all kinds of different foods from the different
restaurants throughout the northeast Oklahoma. Of course, all the breweries are going to
be there too. One cost, and we can get our tickets at wild
brew dot org. It's wow. Wild brew dot org. Absolutely go there
and you can see different levels available. If you'd rather get a whole package
for you for your whole party, you're all your friends, invite them all.
You can get a package deal for him. You can get patron tickets
to get in early, which means you get a special chance to meet my
birds one on one before the crowds get there, which is really really nice,
and of course everything else that comes with the dude, Now that's Saturday.
What time does it start on Saturday? Yeah, Saturday afternoon. So
I'm gonna be setting up a little bit earlier if you want to check Going
Wild Bred out of work, and I'll tell you that you're going to see
all the information because the time will get very if you get a patron ticket
or a general admission, but it'll be that that evening. I see.
Hey, Daniel, thanks for being with us, absolutely, thanks so much
for having us. Don't forget drink a beer, save a bird, ay Man