The Carolina Raptor Center was founded on UNC Charlotte’s campus in the Biological Sciences department in 1975. Since that time, the non-profit has admitted more than 26,000 patients for recovery and rehabilitation. 

In reaching the milestone of their 10,000th rehabilitated bird able to return to the wild, we are releasing a red-tailed hawk into the rich habitat of UNC Charlotte’s campus, where the CRC began nearly 50 years ago.