Burrowing Owl Interpretive Centre

Nesting Program

This enclosure houses 12 owls with partitions with underground nesting  in each.  However there is a flight path the full length so owls can fly anywhere within.

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Owls have also been released this spring on the grounds in the open area of the race track to naturally mate and nest.  It appears to be working and hopefully it will be successful, providing no predators catch them or their young when they hatch.  Apparently this is the case some years.

Of those released only a few return from Texas to nest here. One can only guess what happened to the others.    They hope that those released this year will raise their young and that they all return next spring.

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