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Press Releases:
The Wildlife Center Named Rand McNally "Best of the Road"
Editors’ Pick
No Need to Visit Hogwarts to Learn
About Owls --
Visit Alabama’s own "Owlery"
Bats may be a
Favorite Halloween Symbol But Their Bad Rep is
Undeserved
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Aerial View of Oak
Mountain State Park |
Park
Interpretive Center Announced
A $1.5
million interpretive center is scheduled to open next year at Oak
Mountain State Park with the collaboration of the Alabama Wildlife
Center, the Alabama Department of Conservation, Samford University and
Friends of Oak Mountain. The educational facility will offer an outdoor
classroom, museum and laboratory as well as provide the public an
opportunity to take self-guided tours of the park's nature trails and
interactive exhibits. Find out more
about this new facility. |
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Archives:
Alabama’s Only Wildlife "Orphanage"
In Dire Need of Help
Wildlife
Center Helps Barn Owls in Iraq
Juvenile Raptor
Restoration Program
Home Depot and Hands
On Birmingham Help The Center
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Treetop Nature
Trail |
The Wildlife Center Named a "Best of The
Road Editors' Pick for 2006" by Rand McNally
The Center was one of just 29 sites selected for the honor by the
editors of America's #1 road atlas. Treetop Nature Trail was lauded for its
display of natural habitat enclosures that house
birds with serious
injuries that would prevent them from surviving in
the wild. Now healthy, though physically impaired, the birds live a
sheltered existence in a natural setting at the
Treetop Nature Trail.
Visit the Rand McNally site at
www.randmcnally.com/bestoftheroad.
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Newsletters:
Volume XXIV, Number 1
Summer 2005
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Barn Owl on F-16 Jet in
Iraq
Click here for original Iraqi
Owl story.
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Letter From Iraq
I came across your webpage today when doing some research on an owl we
saw near my squadron facility in Balad, Iraq. I was preflighting my
F-16 the other day and saw this owl up on the tail. I stood for
several minutes enjoying a staring contest with this owl and we were
eventually able to get a camera out and take several photos.
Surprisingly, the owl was back the next morning and was totally
nonplussed by human activity around him. The jet was parked in a
hardened aircraft shelter with bright lights on all night and the
photo was taken at about 0400 hours in the morning. My son who is in 7th
grade responded back to my photo and declared that he surmised that
this is a Barn Owl. Upon doing a Google search for Iraqi Owls I came
across your webpage and the discussions with Dr. David Coffin and your
research confirmed my son’s theory.
Thanks for placing the info
on the web.
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