International Owl Awareness Day Celebration
Sunday, August 15, 2021
Get our 2021 International Owl Awareness Day shirt, featuring the owls of Serbia!
This year our International Owl Awareness Day T-shirt features the 10 owl species found in Serbia. The names of the species, from largest to smallest, are listed on the back in Serbian together with their scientific names. The artwork was created by Kasia and Michal Skakuj from Poland. Half of all profits from T-shirt sales will go to BirdLife Serbia to support their work studying the largest Long-eared Owl roosts in the world and other owl work.
Officially International Owl Awareness Day is August 4th each year, so that's the date you'll find on the shirt even though we are celebrating on August 15.
Click here to pre-order your shirt. We expect to ship July 27-28.
Officially International Owl Awareness Day is August 4th each year, so that's the date you'll find on the shirt even though we are celebrating on August 15.
Click here to pre-order your shirt. We expect to ship July 27-28.
International Children's Owl Art Exhibition at the Houston Elementary School gym (2 blocks south of the Owl Center, no admission fee)
Saturday 10:00 - 5:00
Sunday 10:00 - 3:00
You'll be able to view hundreds of entries, purchase art to take home (including some matted pieces that were on display at the Museum of Russian Art), or buy a set of 20 blank greeting cards made from this year's entries. The cards are so popular we have already sold 180+ sets since March!
Saturday 10:00 - 5:00
Sunday 10:00 - 3:00
You'll be able to view hundreds of entries, purchase art to take home (including some matted pieces that were on display at the Museum of Russian Art), or buy a set of 20 blank greeting cards made from this year's entries. The cards are so popular we have already sold 180+ sets since March!
International Owl Awareness Day Programs on Sunday, August 15:
Following current CDC guidelines, our staff will wear masks and we strong recommend in-person visitors also wear masks--especially since it can get crowded at the Owl Center. We greatly appreciate your thoughtful consideration!
11:00 AM The Owls of Serbia with Milan Ružić, Serbia (free online program)
Milan Ružić is a Serbian ornithologist and conservationist currently working as Executive Director of the Bird Protection and Study Society of Serbia (BirdLife in Serbia). He has been engaged in nature research and conservation since 2001 and has been very interested in owls since the very beginning. He has an MSc in Veterinary Medicine from the Faculty of Agriculture, University of Novi Sad. Milan is the author or co-author of more than 100 scientific articles published in Serbia and abroad, co-author of 4 books and author of a large number of popular texts. He lives in Novi Sad and is the father of two children. Milan has a great passion for owls, especially for the Long-eared Owl. He has focused on them since 2004 when he first got engaged in roost site monitoring. Since then, together with numerous colleagues and friends, Milan has been involved in dozens of research, monitoring and research projects involving Long-eared Owls.
Click here to watch the saved presentation on YouTube.
Milan Ružić is a Serbian ornithologist and conservationist currently working as Executive Director of the Bird Protection and Study Society of Serbia (BirdLife in Serbia). He has been engaged in nature research and conservation since 2001 and has been very interested in owls since the very beginning. He has an MSc in Veterinary Medicine from the Faculty of Agriculture, University of Novi Sad. Milan is the author or co-author of more than 100 scientific articles published in Serbia and abroad, co-author of 4 books and author of a large number of popular texts. He lives in Novi Sad and is the father of two children. Milan has a great passion for owls, especially for the Long-eared Owl. He has focused on them since 2004 when he first got engaged in roost site monitoring. Since then, together with numerous colleagues and friends, Milan has been involved in dozens of research, monitoring and research projects involving Long-eared Owls.
Click here to watch the saved presentation on YouTube.
1:00 PM Things that go bump in the night, Northern saw-whet owls of eastern North America, with Dr. Glenn Proudfoot, Minnesota (in-person program at the Owl Center)
Dr. Glenn Proudfoot received his Ph.D. in wildlife and fisheries science from Texas A&M University for his work on phylogeography of the ferruginous pygmy owl, for which he received the Vice Chancellor's Award for Research Excellence. His list of more than 40 publications, however, crosses interdisciplinary boundaries in audiology, biochemistry, entomology, ornithology, parasitology, and population genetics. His lecture today will focus on Northern saw-whet owls, their migration patterns, the influence of parasites, and, briefly, their auditory sensitivity.
No pre-registration necessary. Just pay regular admission at the Owl Center when you arrive. (in-person program only)
Dr. Glenn Proudfoot received his Ph.D. in wildlife and fisheries science from Texas A&M University for his work on phylogeography of the ferruginous pygmy owl, for which he received the Vice Chancellor's Award for Research Excellence. His list of more than 40 publications, however, crosses interdisciplinary boundaries in audiology, biochemistry, entomology, ornithology, parasitology, and population genetics. His lecture today will focus on Northern saw-whet owls, their migration patterns, the influence of parasites, and, briefly, their auditory sensitivity.
No pre-registration necessary. Just pay regular admission at the Owl Center when you arrive. (in-person program only)
3:00 PM Australian Owls of the Forest and City with Beth Mott and Rod Kavanagh, Australia (free online program)
Dr. Beth Mott is the Project officer for BirdLife Australia's Powerful Owl Project. Beth and an irreplaceable team of citizen scientists monitor owl ecology in the Greater Sydney Basin, using the Powerful Owl Project as a great excuse to look at birds and hoof up and down the hidden gems of Sydney's creeklines. Beth has spent 20 years working with faunal communities in the deserts and rainforests, all great places for a person with an unquenchable love for wildlife. Beth has had a varied career as a quoll trapper, sexy fish cartoonist, lizard breeder, frog and albatross wrangler, flying fox mum, dissector of feral cats and educator; basically, using all these jobs as an excuse to go catch critters. Whilst she always thought she would end up either marrying or becoming David Attenborough, Beth finds educating people about wildlife and urban conservation almost as rewarding.
Dr Rod Kavanagh is adjunct associate professor at Southern Cross University, Lismore. He spent 35 years working for the NSW State Forest Service as a wildlife research scientist. During this time, he investigated many aspects of the ecology (including diet, home-range, habitat-relationships, responses to logging and fire, surveys and population monitoring) for a wide-range of forest-dependent species. His special interests are with nocturnal fauna, particularly possums, gliders and koalas, and the large forest owls which are their main predators. He also spent four years working with the Australian Wildlife Conservancy to reintroduce regionally-extinct species back into semi-arid ecosystems after the key threatening processes responsible for their decline (predation by introduced cats and foxes) had been removed. His PhD studies were on the ecology and management of large forest owls in south-eastern Australia.
Click here to watch the saved presentation on YouTube.
Dr. Beth Mott is the Project officer for BirdLife Australia's Powerful Owl Project. Beth and an irreplaceable team of citizen scientists monitor owl ecology in the Greater Sydney Basin, using the Powerful Owl Project as a great excuse to look at birds and hoof up and down the hidden gems of Sydney's creeklines. Beth has spent 20 years working with faunal communities in the deserts and rainforests, all great places for a person with an unquenchable love for wildlife. Beth has had a varied career as a quoll trapper, sexy fish cartoonist, lizard breeder, frog and albatross wrangler, flying fox mum, dissector of feral cats and educator; basically, using all these jobs as an excuse to go catch critters. Whilst she always thought she would end up either marrying or becoming David Attenborough, Beth finds educating people about wildlife and urban conservation almost as rewarding.
Dr Rod Kavanagh is adjunct associate professor at Southern Cross University, Lismore. He spent 35 years working for the NSW State Forest Service as a wildlife research scientist. During this time, he investigated many aspects of the ecology (including diet, home-range, habitat-relationships, responses to logging and fire, surveys and population monitoring) for a wide-range of forest-dependent species. His special interests are with nocturnal fauna, particularly possums, gliders and koalas, and the large forest owls which are their main predators. He also spent four years working with the Australian Wildlife Conservancy to reintroduce regionally-extinct species back into semi-arid ecosystems after the key threatening processes responsible for their decline (predation by introduced cats and foxes) had been removed. His PhD studies were on the ecology and management of large forest owls in south-eastern Australia.
Click here to watch the saved presentation on YouTube.
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