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The fish eagle soars among the clouds during a rehab exercise session
Simon Thomsett, the director of Soysambu Raptor Centre, is assisted in dressing a bateleur eagle that had a broken wing. All photos: AFP
Raptor technician John Kyalo Mwanzia subdues a critically endangered white-backed vulture that is being prepared for an X-ray at the centre
Mr Thomsett, right, sets up a portable imaging machine with the help of a raptor technician at Soysambu
The director examines the result of the scan on the white-backed vulture's wing at Soysambu
Shiv Kapila, one of the directors of the Kenya Bird of Prey Trust, exercises Horrace, a critically endangered vulture at the Naivasha Raptor Centre
A crown eagle nicknamed Helen sits on her perch unable to fly due to a damaged wing and compromised eyesight sustained after capture and persecution at a village in Kenya
A white-backed vulture being prepared for examination
Mr Mwanzia tends to a lappet-faced vulture that was rescued as a chick, having falling out of the nest and injuring a foot
A bateleur eagle that underwent surgery to repair a broken wing recovers from a mild sedative
A white-backed vulture being examined
Pylons support high-voltage cables that run through the Lake Elementaita National Wildlife Sanctuary that was declared an Important Bird Area in 1999, in Nakuru, Kenya
Mr Mwanzia rehabilitates a juvenile fish eagle after it was treated for injuries sustained in a territorial fight
The fish eagle soars among the clouds during a rehab exercise session
Simon Thomsett, the director of Soysambu Raptor Centre, is assisted in dressing a bateleur eagle that had a broken wing. All photos: AFP
Raptor technician John Kyalo Mwanzia subdues a critically endangered white-backed vulture that is being prepared for an X-ray at the centre
Mr Thomsett, right, sets up a portable imaging machine with the help of a raptor technician at Soysambu
The director examines the result of the scan on the white-backed vulture's wing at Soysambu
Shiv Kapila, one of the directors of the Kenya Bird of Prey Trust, exercises Horrace, a critically endangered vulture at the Naivasha Raptor Centre
A crown eagle nicknamed Helen sits on her perch unable to fly due to a damaged wing and compromised eyesight sustained after capture and persecution at a village in Kenya
A white-backed vulture being prepared for examination
Mr Mwanzia tends to a lappet-faced vulture that was rescued as a chick, having falling out of the nest and injuring a foot
A bateleur eagle that underwent surgery to repair a broken wing recovers from a mild sedative
A white-backed vulture being examined
Pylons support high-voltage cables that run through the Lake Elementaita National Wildlife Sanctuary that was declared an Important Bird Area in 1999, in Nakuru, Kenya
Mr Mwanzia rehabilitates a juvenile fish eagle after it was treated for injuries sustained in a territorial fight
The fish eagle soars among the clouds during a rehab exercise session

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