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Raptor Specialist Trish Nixon helps Luigi, an 8 year-old Harpy Eagle, show off his wing span. Photo courtesy of The Peregrine Fund Name: Trish NixonAge: 53Job: Raptor Specialist at The Peregrine Fund's World Center for Birds of PreyThe Peregrine Fund in Boise, Idaho is a nonprofit organization that breeds endangered birds of prey around the world and releases them back into the wild. Named for the Peregrine Falcon it helped save from extinction, the center now breeds the endangered Aplomado Falcon and California Condor. What does a raptor specialist do?Raptor is just another word for bird of prey. My job focuses on the care, feeding, training and educating about the birds of prey that we ...