Rapping about raptors in St. Louis Park (photos)

Adam Barnett with The Raptor Center at the University of Minnesota shows Aquila Elementary School students a bald eagle Nov. 20. (Photo by Seth Rowe – Sun Newspapers)

- Adam Barnett with The Raptor Center at the University of Minnesota explains why owls can pivot their necks more than humans while holding a great horned owl Nov. 20 at Aquila Elementary School. (Photo by Seth Rowe – Sun Newspapers)

- Aquila Elementary School students eagerly raise their hands to volunteer during a presentation on raptors at the school Nov. 20. Adam Barnett with The Raptor Center at the University of Minnesota is holding a red-tailed hawk. (Photo by Seth Rowe – Sun Newspapers)

- As a volunteer dresses up with features of a raptor, such as a beak, Adam Barnett with The Raptor Center at the University of Minnesota asks Aquila Elementary School students to feel the vertebrae in their neck during a Nov. 20 presentation at the school. Barnett explained additional neck vertebrae in raptors allows them to pivot their heads further than humans. (Photo by Seth Rowe – Sun Newspapers)



