It's not too late to join the Ohio Wildlife Rehabilitators Association in
welcoming Norman Smith Saturday night at the Holiday Inn in Worthington.
Members of the public can attend the Saturday night banquet only and enjoy
dinner and Norman on his talk "From Snowy Owls to Sawhet Owls". Norman joins
us from  Massachusetts Audubon Society and Blue Hills Trailside Museum and
Norman Smith Environmental Education Center in Milton, Massachusetts.

Norman has studied birds of prey for over 35 years, including rehabilitating
the injured and successfully fostering over 1,000 orphaned hawk and owl
chicks into adoptive nests. His ongoing long-term projects include trapping
and banding migrating hawks and owls in the Blue Hills Reservation, banding
nestling hawks and owls, and doing research on snowy owls and other raptors
wintering at Boston's Logan International Airport. He has also traveled to
Alaska to study snowy owls in their native tundra habitat. His research work
has been published in National Geographic, National Wildlife, Ranger Rick,
Yankee, Massachusetts Wildlife, Bird Observer, Birding, Sanctuary, Geo,
Nature, Grolier Encyclopedia, Owls of the Northern Hemisphere and Owls of
the World. His mission is to use the information gathered from his research
to stimulate a passion in everyone he meets to help us better understand,
appreciate and care for this world in which we live.

While OWRA welcomes all to our weekend long conference, we are offering the
Saturday night banquet dinner and speaker separately. The Conference is from
November 11-13th and is being held at the Holiday Inn at Routes 270 and 23
in Worthington. For more information or to register, see the Ohio Wildlife
Rehabilitators Association Web site <http://www.owra.org/events>  or contact
Manon VanSchoyck (740-967-8320). Walk ins are welcome Saturday night at
6:30. Cost of dinner and program $50.




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