Jane Cantwell

President and Executive Director

Jane Cantwell, is a raptor biologist with plans to develop an educational raptor center in the Coeur d'Alene area, and has been working with raptors for the last sixteen years. Her work began reintroducing some sixty endangered Peregrine Falcons from skyscrapers in the Midwest, over four years.

She received training at the prestigious University of Minnesota Raptor Center where she learned to expertly care for and treat medically, injured birds of prey. She received her Masters degree in Biology from Purdue University, where her thesis investigated wintering Bald Eagle habitat in Indiana. Since then, she has treated two thousand injured birds of prey and lectures extensively about the ecology of birds of prey, traveling with specially trained eagles, hawks, owls and falcons. She works closely with the Idaho Department of Fish and Game, and is permitted for her work through the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.

Jane is also a Master Falconer, as well as a registered nurse. She is currently the Executive Director of a non-profit organization called Birds of Prey Northwest that serves to educate the public about the inherent value of raptors in our landscape, and provides emergency medical treatment to wild injured birds of prey that collide with our modern world. She and her husband Paul reside on 25 acres north of St. Maries, Idaho.