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Meet Your Local Birds of Prey

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Join Loudoun Wildlife Conservancy and Secret Garden Birds and Bees’ Liz Dennison to meet live birds of prey — just...

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Book Review: What an Owl Knows by Jennifer Ackerman

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Volume 29 Issue 2, Spring 2024 Review by Steve Allen Owls are very good at keeping secrets, especially their own....

Two Raptor Programs to Learn About Predatory Birds

Two Raptor Programs to Learn About Predatory Birds

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This month Loudoun Wildlife Conservancy sponsored two programs about raptors, which are always crowd favorites. Liz Dennison talks about Great...

Searching For Birds of Prey

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Instructor Liam McGranaghanPhoto by Laura McGranaghan The adventure started with a class taught by raptor expert Liam McGranaghan on February...

Short-Eared Owl Rescue Success

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Threat to Barn Owls

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Vol. 21 Issue 3, Fall 2016 by Belinda Burwell, DVM, Director of Wildlife Veterinary Care Photo by Katherine Daniels As...

Barn Owls – Our Ghost Birds

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Vol. 21 Issue 3, Fall 2016 by Nicole Hamilton This past summer, I got a text on my phone. It...

Winter Owls

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Eastern Screech Owl

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Vol. 17 Issue 2, Summer 2012 Eastern Screech Owl, gray morph Photo by Liam McGranahan By Elizabeth Dennison, Raptor Conservancy...

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With the weather yesterday, we had some great views of the Short-eared Owls but our photos just didn’t capture the...

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