Flight, Fury, and Feathers: Talking Raptors with Jenna Kopp

Locations Unknown

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Places & Travel, True Crime, Society & Culture

4.6 • 756 Ratings

🗓️ 10 October 2025

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Summary

This week we take flight into the world of raptors, nature’s most skilled aerial predators. From hawks and eagles to owls and falcons, these incredible birds shape ecosystems and inspire conservation efforts across the globe. We explore how education, rehabilitation, and hands-on experience help protect them for future generations, and uncover what it’s really like to work up close with these powerful creatures. Whether you’re a wildlife lover or simply curious about the world above, join us this week as we speak to Jenna Kopp, the Executive Director of the Great Lakes Raptor Center.

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0:00.0	Thousands of people have mysteriously vanished in America's wilderness.
0:14.0	Join us as we dive into the deep end of the unexplainable and try to piece together what happened.
0:59.7	You are listening to Locations Unknown. What's up everybody and welcome back to another episode of Locations Unknown.
1:04.5	I'm your co-host, Joe, you're outing with me as always as a guy who loves all music except for country.
1:06.1	Mike Vannebogart.
1:07.0	Oh, thank you, Joe.
1:08.3	And country is growing on me.
1:08.8	Okay.
1:10.5	Not as bad as I thought it was. I love that.
1:13.3	I didn't even know if that was real. Oh, I had no idea. I just assumed be a big fan of it,
1:17.8	but it's growing on me. I don't like spring break country. Like pop country. Yeah, I like good,
1:22.9	like old school country. Yeah. Like a red solo cup. Yeah. No, no. That's spring break country. Like she keyed my truck. I have a truck. My truck. Like that country. I can't stand. Okay. All right. Well, thank you, Joe. And thank you to all of our amazing listeners for tuning in once again. We have a different episode for you today. So it's a special one.
1:46.8	Joe, why don't you fill them in? I will. So we have a special episode today where we brought on one of our
1:53.6	large huge fans, Jenna Copp, I just said that because she called in and left the message. She works for
1:58.9	the Great Lakes Raptor Center. And she left a pretty interesting voicemail. Me and left the message. She works for the Great Lakes Raptor Center.
2:05.5	And she left a pretty interesting voicemail. Me and Mike were intrigued. So we had her on.
2:10.3	We just did the interview. It was a lot of fun. It's fantastic. We joked a lot about raptors.
2:16.1	We learned a ton about conservation. It's a new organization and she's fundraising. So we're going to hope that our listeners love birds as much as we do
2:19.3	and contribute to this great organization but yeah without further ado oh i should say i don't normally
2:26.5	do this part so i'm missing stuff oh yeah if you want to call into the show dial 208 391 6913 and you can call with if you run a Raptor Center or if you have a cool story of something that happened to you on the trail anything you might end up on the show yes and you can visit you want to support the show we've oh yeah yeah you pick it up from here yeah we've got our you our, you can join our Patreon account, Spreeker subscriptions, Apple subscriptions.
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