This event is free but registration is requested.
Build a Bird
Classes & Workshops
HopStop Family Event

Build a Bird of Prey

in partnership with Hanover Parks & Recreation and VINS
August 19, 2026

What makes a bird of prey? Let's find out!

Build a bird with a raptor toolbox filled with touchable artifacts. Through song and dance, discover how raptors hunt and pack a raptor lunchbox to learn what they eat. Round out this experience by meeting one of our tiny but mighty raptor ambassadors! 

The Hop is excited to partner with Hanover Parks and Recreation as part of their Picnic in the Park Series. 

Photographs will be taken at this event. By attending, you agree to be photographed and video recorded. Please let us know if you have any questions or concerns.

With thanks to our Season Sponsor – Community Programming: The Jack & Dorothy Byrne Foundation.
 

Founded in 1972, the Vermont Institute of Natural Science (VINS) is a nonprofit environmental education organization based in Quechee, Vermont. VINS' mission is to motivate individuals and communities to care for the environment through education, research and avian wildlife rehabilitation.

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