Owls of Yellowstone
June 7-8
Gardiner, Montana
No
Katy Duffy, M.S.
Adult
Field Seminars
Wildlife
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Are you fascinated by owls—their huge eyes and fabled hearing, their secretive habits and cryptic beauty? Through talks and field trips, you’ll explore how these adaptations work and why they help owls successfully live in Yellowstone. Visit places in the park that owls call home to find out why these habitats work so well for them. You’ll learn to read other park landscapes for signs of good owl habitat, and read signs that these secretive birds leave as clues. You might even see owls hunting in daylight—and find out why this suits them so well.
Note: No lodging is provided for this course. You can find more information on Gardiner-based lodging in the course letter below.
About the instructor
Katy Duffy, M.S., has been a licensed bird bander specializing in diurnal raptors, owls and songbirds for more than 40 years. She has also conducted late winter – spring surveys for advertising male forest owls in Yellowstone and Grand Teton National Parks for 23 years. She has counted diurnal raptors in Yellowstone National Park during fall migration since 2010. She has given programs and taught classes on diurnal raptors and owls of the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem for more than 20 years.
Katy worked for the National Park Service in Yellowstone and Grand Teton National Parks for 32 years. She was a supervisory resource education ranger in Yellowstone and a ranger-naturalist in Grand Teton. She has a M.S. in ecology from Rutgers University.
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