‘Eagle Lady’ to celebrate 90th birthday with raptor program
Doris Mager, known as “The Eagle Lady,” will celebrate her 90th birthday by giving a birds of prey program at 10 a.m. Sunday, Oct. 25, at the Oconaluftee Visitor Center in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park.
Mager has been working with raptors for more than 25 years, caring for more than 80 injured eagles and hundreds of other raptors over that span and founding the education and research group Save Our American Raptors. She continues to travel the country with the three birds in her possession now.
At the end of the year, Mager will be moving to Washington State to be closer to family, so this will likely be her last appearance in the park before then.
The visitor center is located on U.S. 441 about two miles north of Cherokee. 828.497.1904.
