Burrowing Owls Released Onto Alberta Prairie as Part of Efforts to Bolster Endangered Species

african eagle owl g51d74e59a 1920 Burrowing Owls Released Onto Alberta Prairie as Part of Efforts to Bolster Endangered Species

Takeaways:

  • The Wilder Institute/ Calgary Zoo released 20 burrowing owls in southeastern Alberta.
  • The is part of an effort to push back against the population decline of the species in Canada over the past 40 years.
  • “We’re releasing them as adults now in the hope that then they’ll mate and produce more baby owls” said Graham Dixon-MacCallum, a conservation research population ecologist with the Wilder Institute/Calgary Zoo.

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