Draped Crusaders

Joel Sartore

National Geographic

Camouflaged in handmade 'ghost costumes', workers at the Sutton Avian Research Center move two bald eagle chicks near Bartlesville, Oklahoma. These chicks were raised using adult eagle hand puppets ever since hatching and the ghost costumes keep the birds from imprinting on their human hosts, a factor critical to the birds' survival in the wild.

Joel Sartore, "Draped Crusaders," in POYi Archive, Item #20779, http://archive.poy.org/index.php/items/show/20779 (accessed June 9, 2025).