Draped Crusaders

Joel Sartore

National Geographic

Camouflaged in handmade 'ghost costumes', workers at the Sutton Avian Research Center move tow Bald Eagle chicks near Bartlesvill, 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 birds' survival in the wild.

Joel Sartore, "Draped Crusaders," in POYi Archive, Item #21446, http://archive.poy.org/items/show/21446 (accessed April 21, 2025).