THE SOLUTION
Feather collection and transmitter placement.
To answer where they’re coming from, we’ve collected feathers from captured birds, sending the feathers to Colorado State University and Bird Genoscape Project to determine where they breed. The hope is for us to identify populations that may face challenges to their survival.
To answer where they’re going, that’s a bit trickier. Typically, you’d capture birds banded across various sites to understand regional movements. But, there are few owl banding stations in the Intermountain West. Beginning in fall 2025, we will be placing transmitters on up to 15 birds to provide us with GPS locations for up to two years. If successful, we can follow both owl species to their wintering and breeding grounds.
Project Owlnet 
