Leader Details

Kara Hagedorn Kara got turned on to birds while camping as a kid in Colorado. After completing her degree in Zoology, she worked as an Environmental Educator for NY State Parks. She volunteered at the Cornell Hawk Barn as a raptor rehabilitator and in 1997 adopted Sunshine, an unreleasable Red-tailed Hawk. Together they have presented hundreds of programs focusing on the beauty, behavior and value of raptor species. In 2010 Kara wrote, directed and produced "Sunshine's Surprise", a docu-drama-comedy about a hawk who hatched chickens. Sunshine was such an excellent mother that she went on to foster two Red-shouldered Hawks. Kara wrote a book about it called, "Sunshine's Mothering Miracle". Visit their website at www.sunshinehawk.com.