Tyco was the first turtle to live at the nature center and remains the first turtle exhibit you see as you enter the Harris Nature Center. He was donated to the Harris Nature Center in April of 1998.

Tyco was likely born in 1995 and purchased in a pet store as a hatchling. Both hawks will remain permanent residents for the remainder of their lives. As a young bird not yet adept at hunting, Aztec may have been feeding on road-kill and been hit by a car. Aztec, still a juvenile at the time and obviously injured, was spotted in the road near Webberville in 2008. It is assumed that his mate fed him during the mending process, or else he would not have survived. Talon was found at a construction site in Okemos in 2010 with his broken wing already improperly healed. The Red-tailed Hawks at the Harris Nature Center both have permanent wing injuries and came to live here in April of 2012. Eclipse will remain a permanent resident at the Harris Nature Center to help us teach people of all ages about birds, raptors, camouflage and nocturnal wildlife. Her left eye is missing and she can not be returned to the wild. Onyx came to HNC in 2019 and will live out the rest of his life here.Įclipse came to HNC after being hit by a car in 2020 and receiving treatment at the Wildside Rehabilitation Center in Eaton Rapids. Being imprinted means that Onyx relies on humans in order to survive and this impairs his ability to survive in the wild. Due to this species’ extreme intelligence, he was quickly imprinted on his rescuers before he was taken to a wildlife rehabilitation center. Onyx was found as an orphaned fledgling in 2018.

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