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The fish eagle soars among the clouds during a rehab exercise session

Simon Thomsett, the director of Soysambu Raptor Centre, is assisted in dressing a bateleur eagle that had a broken wing. All photos: AFP

Raptor technician John Kyalo Mwanzia subdues a critically endangered white-backed vulture that is being prepared for an X-ray at the centre

Mr Thomsett, right, sets up a portable imaging machine with the help of a raptor technician at Soysambu

The director examines the result of the scan on the white-backed vulture's wing at Soysambu

Shiv Kapila, one of the directors of the Kenya Bird of Prey Trust, exercises Horrace, a critically endangered vulture at the Naivasha Raptor Centre

A crown eagle nicknamed Helen sits on her perch unable to fly due to a damaged wing and compromised eyesight sustained after capture and persecution at a village in Kenya

A white-backed vulture being prepared for examination

Mr Mwanzia tends to a lappet-faced vulture that was rescued as a chick, having falling out of the nest and injuring a foot

A bateleur eagle that underwent surgery to repair a broken wing recovers from a mild sedative

A white-backed vulture being examined

Pylons support high-voltage cables that run through the Lake Elementaita National Wildlife Sanctuary that was declared an Important Bird Area in 1999, in Nakuru, Kenya

Mr Mwanzia rehabilitates a juvenile fish eagle after it was treated for injuries sustained in a territorial fight

The fish eagle soars among the clouds during a rehab exercise session

Simon Thomsett, the director of Soysambu Raptor Centre, is assisted in dressing a bateleur eagle that had a broken wing. All photos: AFP

Raptor technician John Kyalo Mwanzia subdues a critically endangered white-backed vulture that is being prepared for an X-ray at the centre

Mr Thomsett, right, sets up a portable imaging machine with the help of a raptor technician at Soysambu

The director examines the result of the scan on the white-backed vulture's wing at Soysambu

Shiv Kapila, one of the directors of the Kenya Bird of Prey Trust, exercises Horrace, a critically endangered vulture at the Naivasha Raptor Centre

A crown eagle nicknamed Helen sits on her perch unable to fly due to a damaged wing and compromised eyesight sustained after capture and persecution at a village in Kenya

A white-backed vulture being prepared for examination

Mr Mwanzia tends to a lappet-faced vulture that was rescued as a chick, having falling out of the nest and injuring a foot

A bateleur eagle that underwent surgery to repair a broken wing recovers from a mild sedative

A white-backed vulture being examined

Pylons support high-voltage cables that run through the Lake Elementaita National Wildlife Sanctuary that was declared an Important Bird Area in 1999, in Nakuru, Kenya

Mr Mwanzia rehabilitates a juvenile fish eagle after it was treated for injuries sustained in a territorial fight

The fish eagle soars among the clouds during a rehab exercise session

Photo essay: Inside a sanctuary in Kenya, one of the last safe spaces for birds of prey

The Soysambu Raptor Centre treats hundreds of injured animals, with the hope of releasing them back into the wild

The National

May 17, 2024

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