Dick Clark, recipient of a 2008 Special Achievement Award from the World Owl Hall of Fame, made the news in May. He had been observing a Great Horned Owl nest on a large power transmission structure near Prescott, Arizona and one day found a youngster hanging upside down by one leg, 80 feet up in the air. Read the whole story in The Daily Courier.
It's wonderful to know that researchers like Dick care about individual birds as well as populations as a whole. Thanks to Dick, the good folks at Western Area Power Administration, and Liberty Wildlife Rehabilitation Foundation for their roles in this dramatic rescue!
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.
