Auburn's bald eagle Independence flew at a Philadelphia Eagles game in September. It won't be the last time.
But this wasn’t a PR stunt from Stevens, the director at the Raptor Center. It was a long-awaited execution of a plan to expand Auburn’s beloved eagle flight tradition nationally — and largely, a route to drive a new source of revenue.Stevens has only been the director of the Raptor Center for about year now. He came to Auburn, he said, because of the opportunities he saw to grow the program’s conservation efforts and be a key part of what makes Auburn football uniquely Auburn.
Certainly, the Raptor Center’s most famous job is the eagle flight. But the humans there work at Auburn because of their focus on conservation. Amanda Sweeney, Indy’s trainer, was not a sports fan before she began working with Auburn’s eagle flights. She learned how football works from her trips to Jordan-Hare with the birds.
It didn’t make a lot of sense to put Indy in her crate underneath the plane with luggage. Stevens said that could cause stress ahead of her big flight.“People travel with pets,” Stevens said. “I’m not calling her a pet, but people travel with animals quite regularly. It’s not crazy different. It is a little bit interesting when you’re at a TSA checkpoint in an airport and you have to pull your eagle out there at the security checkpoint so they can check the carrier.
Come Thursday night, near the end of the Star-Spangled Banner, it was Stevens opening the door of Indy’s crate, releasing her to soar down to Sweeney who waited on the field. Stevens, too, has begun work expanding the program to train other birds like falcons and hawks for potential flights for teams with bird mascots.
And because Indy is a bald eagle, she is the best candidate from Auburn’s Raptor Center to take on the road for spectacles like this. Indy came to the Raptor Center when she was two years old and has been with the program for the last five years. She has flown at many Auburn football games — making her Auburn debut in 2021 — and has flown once this season at the first game against UMass on Sept. 2.
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