 If you could train a wild hawk to catch animals in the forest, could you train an eagle to fly around Jurden Hair Stadium? The answer is yes. The South Eastern Raptor Center has more than just eagles. We do have four eagles, two bald eagles, two golden eagles, but we have 22 raptors in total, varying from the small Eastern Screech Owl all the way up to the sides of our largest golden eagle. Aria War Eagle 8 is one of our younger golden eagles. She's about eight years old. She began flying in 2018 and then officially became War Eagle 8 in 2019. Independence is our newest bald eagle. She's about five years old and she's actually going to make her debut flight in Jurden Hair Stadium the 2021 season. Spirit is our 25-year-old bald eagle. She's been flying in the stadium since 2002. We've made the decision to actually retire her. Her last flight will be on November 13th, which is actually the military appreciation game. Our eagles are trained throughout the year and what they're trained to is a lure. It's just a circle piece of leather that they know every time they touch, they get a food reward. Most of our work for game day comes in really throughout the year, going to the stadium and training these eagles from the beginning of July to the end of the season, Monday through Friday. People call us all the time waiting to learn more about raptors. There's a lot of good websites out there that you can actually go to to learn more about these raptors. One of them is Auburn University's Southeastern Raptor Center's website. We've got a lot of information on there, but also a lot of information can be found on the Alabama Extension's website that not just covers raptors, but covers a lot of the animals that you might see here in Alabama.