History: Sparky was rescued from drowning by a courageous man who saw him floating in the Willamette River, jumped after him and pulled him out of the water. Sparky was less than a year old at the time and had the mottled brown feathers of a juvenile bald eagle.
Sparky has a peculiar condition: his primary feathers do not develop fully but fall out prematurely. He cannot fly. Multiple tests have not revealed the cause of this condition.
The students at Mountain View Elementary School adopted him and named him "Sparky".
We began training Sparky to take food from the glove in the summer of 2006. In November 2008 we accelerated his training to have him step up on the glove for food.
He can be very talkative and he loves to bathe and play in water.
