Alice the Great Horned Owl is a permanently injured owl who works at the Houston Nature Center in Houston, MN and lives with her handler, Karla Bloem. Rusty and Iris are Great Horned Owls that are both blind in their right eyes and cannot live in the wild. Rusty and Iris are breeding in captivity as part of Karla's vocal study on Great Horned Owls. All together they have led to the creation of an International Owl Center in Houston, MN and an International Festival of Owls.
I find it interesting that the adult owls can sit sooooooooo very still, yet the owlets are all very bobbly (even if it is sped up). They must get all their twitching out of their system before they grow up . . . and then look like the tree they are perched on.
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