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Kate Davis began life with a love of animals, especially reptiles, and by junior high school in 1973, she was rehabilitating injured and orphaned mammals and raptors with the Cincinnati Zoo Junior Zoologists Club. Right away, she began providing educational programs at the zoo and in the community, as well as illustrating their publications and doing taxidermy work for the Zoo Director and the Cincinnati Museum of Natural History. 

After locating to Missoula, Montana in 1978, Kate received a degree in Zoology from the University of Montana in 1982. She founded the non-profit educational organization Raptors of the Rockies in 1988, and keeps 18 non-releasable and falconry birds at the facility at her house on the banks of the Bitterroot River. Formal programs with these ambassador birds number 1400 for 117,000 participants, young and old alike, with 125 schools in Montana and Idaho. Every audience member is asked to go outside and "hoot up an owl." The Teaching Team birds and their wild counterparts are the subjects and source of inspiration for her photography, drawings, paintings, etchings, welded steel sculptures, and writings for periodicals.

Nikon D700

Nikon D700

Nikon D700

Nikon D700

Nikon D700

Nikon D700

Nikon D700

Nikon D700

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