Giving Tuesday 2022- Support Owl Research & Conservation!
November 29, 2022 Our focus on long-term research has led to real impacts in owl conservation- but we need your support! More than ever, individual donations ensure that ORI's mission to study and conserve owl species can continue. As a 501(c)3 with a very small staff, gifts of any amount are vital to our continued success- especially in this tough economic climate. Your donation will go directly to support our many research projects, which you can read about in the 2022 issu
Snowy Owl Chick Rescued Through Multi-State Effort!
November 10, 2022 In September 2022, ORI was contacted by a wildlife veterinarian in Utqiagvik, AK about a banded Snowy Owl that had been injured. It had been found in a field near a school, unable to fly. While we will never really know what happened to the owl, we are sure the injuries it sustained were human-caused. As we soon learned, this bird was one of the chicks from the 2022 nest that we had been monitoring all summer (See: Timeline of the 2022 Snowy Owl Breeding Sea
Book Review: Owls of the Eastern Ice, by Jonathan Slaght
Did you know there are owls who prey upon fish? 🦉🐟 Looking for a new book to curl up with by the fire this winter season? 📖 A book that we've been enjoying is Owls of the Eastern Ice: A Quest to find and Save the World’s Largest Owl, by Jonathan C. Slaght. ORI's Denver Holt reviewed the book for the Association of Field Ornithologists, and recommends it to anyone who has an interest in natural history and wildlife researchers past and present. From Denver's review: "Slagh
