JANE VELTKAMP coauthored the children’s books Swoop and Soar: How Science Rescued Two Osprey Orphans and Found Them a New Family in the Wild and Beauty and the Beak: How Science, Technology, and a 3D-Printed Beak Rescued a Bald Eagle, winner of the AAAS/Subaru SB&F Prize for Excellence in Science Books, the Bank Street College Cook Prize for Best STEM Picture Book, and the California Reading Association Eureka! Gold Award for Nonfiction. A raptor biologist and educator, Jane is founding director of the nonprofit Birds of Prey Northwest in northern Idaho. She cares for Beauty the bald eagle, ospreys and raptors of all kinds, and leads raptor education programs involving live, specially trained educational birds. She directed the successful reintroduction of ospreys in eastern South Dakota. She rescues and treats wild raptors under permit from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. She is the osprey expert for the Sandpoint, Idaho osprey nest cam.
Persnickety Press Titles:
- Beauty and the Beak: How Science, Technology, and a 3D-Printed Beak Rescued a Bald Eagle
- Swoop and Soar: How Science Rescued Two Osprey Orphans and Found Them a New Family in the Wild
Website: birdsofpreynorthwest.org