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Barn Owls: The Mysterious Hunter

with Conserve Wildlife Foundation of New Jersey

Presented by Biologist Meghan Kolk

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If you were to ever encounter a barn owl on a dark, spooky, fall evening, there's a high probability that you would think you have met a much more menacing foe. The barn owl's white, heart-shaped face may be cute in the daylight, but it's pale body flying through the night's sky tends to look more foreboding. As the world-wide predatory bird lurks in the shadow, beware it's call. The ear-splitting, mind-numbing, shiver-inducing screech will haunt you, especially on a dark and spooky night. It's known as a cave owl, death owl, ghost owl, night owl and hobgoblin owl, and I'm sure you can understand why.

Join us and Conserve Wildlife Foundation of New Jersey as we are joined by biologist Meghan Kolk, and we learn all about the elusive barn owl.

Registration opens on Thursday, September 9th at 9am.

About Meghan Kolk, Wildlife Biologist:

Meghan is responsible for writing Beach Management Plans that provide for the protection and recovery of listed species of beach nesting birds and plants on New Jersey’s beaches. In addition, she is working on a project to restore native grassland habitat for nesting birds including the state endangered Upland Sandpiper. Meghan earned a B.S. in Biology from The College of New Jersey in 1998. Her hobbies include bird watching and creating works of wildlife art from items found on the beach.

About: Conserve Wildlife Foundation of New Jersey

New Jersey has a rich biodiversity that belies its small size and urban reputation. In every corner of our state, species of wildlife, considered rare and imperiled enough to be protected by state or federal law, are woven in to the tapestry of life in our state.

Rare wildlife species live, much like New Jersey residents, in the mountains of the north, the pastoral farmlands of central New Jersey, the bays and swamps along our coasts, as well as on skyscrapers, bridges, and at the edges of suburban subdivisions. These species live a challenged life where roads represent impenetrable obstacles, developments spell the demise of habitat, and contamination in wetlands can wipe out an entire generation.

It is our duty, and our privilege, to protect these species. We gather the best science-tried and true conservation techniques, innovative education activities, and an engaged corps of willing volunteers, in pursuit of the right combination of activities that will preserve a species before it disappears from our state; help another population recover or; highlight some bird, fish, mammal or insect that must be protected before it slides towards extinction.

Our mission is to preserve rare and imperiled species of wildlife that live and breed in, and migrate through New Jersey.

We do this by:

• Carrying out research on species, populations and natural communities.
• Implementing conservation plans on species or populations to stall declines and start recovery.
• Restoring habitat so that it can be as productive as possible for wildlife and other natural communities.
• Educating everyone who lives in New Jersey about our shared wild heritage and our shared responsibility to protect it.
• Engaging partners to make us effective and efficient in the use of our resources.
• Developing a committed corps of volunteers connected to our state’s wonderful biodiversity and working hard to protect it.

CWF VISION:
We are looking, and working, towards a future where New Jersey is home to greater numbers of rare species, stronger populations and enough good habitat to support them

Visit http://www.conservewildlifenj.org/ to learn more.

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