 Jason Beason of the Rocky Mountain Bird Observatory will present this free slide show on two consecutive evenings:
Carbondale, Wednesday, Jan. 20 Dos Gringos Burritos, in the La Fontana Plaza on Highway 133. The presentation starts at 7 p.m., and food and drink can be purchased beforehand. Hosted by the Wilderness Workshop.
Aspen, Thursday, Jan. 21
Aspen Center for Environmental Studies (ACES), at 7:30 p.m. Free tea and cookies will be available beforehand. Hosted by WW and ACES.
Beason says his talk will appeal to kids as well as adults. He’ll discuss techniques for spotting and identifying owls (they can be found almost anywhere), and he’ll play audio clips of common calls.
According to Beason, 12 different owl species occur in western Colorado – more than a quarter of all North American species.
Yet they are one of the least understood types of birds, Beason notes, simply because their nocturnal habits make them difficult to study. Even today experts still don’t know which owl species is the most abundant in Colorado, and no one can say for certain if all of their populations are stable.
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