Truth be told, we do baby them, but when they hit the fledgling/rotten teenager stage, we stop and let them go wild.
There are some that come in really young and do bond with people. If they won't turn wild eventually when we soft release, then they get licensed and go into the education program, but that is really rare with raptors. If they hang around a rehabber's house but are technically released, then that is fine.
The lady who founded our group 30 years ago raised a whole clutch of vultures and released them at her house. She is very adamant about NOT imprinting the babies, but it will happen no matter how hard you try to prevent it. Well, these baby vultures didn't want to leave, so they roosted on her roof, and every time people came up to her house, they begged! LOL! Can you imagine 5 grown vultures begging for food from a rooftop?? It was kinda scary for non rehabbers! But they eventually went off on their own.
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