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April 212023

World Owl Conference

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The 7th World Owl Conference is scheduled for Oct. 23-27, 2023 in La Crosse, Wisconsin and is being hosted by the International Owl Center, University of Wisconsin-La Crosse and Viterbo University.

 

There will be a special Short-eared Owl symposium as well as a meeting of the International Snowy Owl Working Group. Denver Holt, founder and president of the Owl Research Institute, will give a keynote presentation at the banquet focusing on his 33 years studying Long-eared Owls. The banquet will also include an owl calling contest with prizes such as a Reconyx trail cam, Vortex Viper binoculars and a recorder from Wildlife Acoustics.

 

Pre-conference workshops include an owl vocal and monitoring analysis workshop by Wildlife Acoustics and a comparative owl anatomy workshop where participants get to dissect owls of a variety of genera, led by Arnold van den Burg and Kas Koenraads of the Zoological Museum Netherlands. 

 

Post-conference field trips include Trempealeau National Wildlife Refuge/Elmaro Winery; Luther College hawk banding station/Hoslett Museum of Natural History (Decorah, Iowa); and the International Owl Center (Houston, MN) with a presentation by best-selling author Jennifer Ackerman about her new book, “What an Owl Knows.”

 

Abstracts are due April 21.

 

For more information go to the conference website, www.WorldOwlConference.com, follow the conference Facebook page, https://www.facebook.com/WorldOwlConferences, and most importantly sign up for the Owl Conservation and Research e-newsletter for conference updates, https://owlconservationandresearchnews.getresponsepages.com.

h World Owl Conference is scheduled for Oct. 23-27, 2023 in La Crosse, Wisconsin and is being hosted by the International Owl Center, University of Wisconsin-La Crosse and Viterbo University.

 

There will be a special Short-eared Owl symposium as well as a meeting of the International Snowy Owl Working Group. Denver Holt, founder and president of the Owl Research Institute, will give a keynote presentation at the banquet focusing on his 33 years studying Long-eared Owls. The banquet will also include an owl calling contest with prizes such as a Reconyx trail cam, Vortex Viper binoculars and a recorder from Wildlife Acoustics