Saw-whet Owl; © Ken Sobon
For the last 17 years Altacal Audubon has hosted the northern saw-whet owl banding station at Big Chico Creek Ecological Reserve. In the presentation, Ken Sobon will talk about the natural history of the northern saw-whet owl, our banding process and the results from the last 17 years of study.
Ken Sobon is an avid birder, field trip leader, Vice President of Altacal Audubon Society and is the Northern California representative on Audubon California board of directors. He has worked the last 11 seasons volunteering and assisting, and is now the Director of the Northern Saw-whet Owl fall migration monitoring project. In addition, Ken has been a science teacher to middle school students in Oroville since 1995. He has shared his love of science and birding with his students both in the classroom and in field.
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