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Wild at Heart: Saving Burrowing Owls with Greg Clark

  • Papago Church of the Brethren 2450 North 64th Street Scottsdale, AZ, 85257 United States (map)

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Western Burrowing Owls have experienced declining populations for decades.

Wild At Heart’s Burrowing Owl Recovery Project is a comprehensive, multi-faceted effort to conserve this species in Arizona. Learn about these efforts to rescue, reengineer habitat identification, relocate, release, and monitor these owls and what you can do to help ensure their survival.

Greg Clark is an engineer who volunteered to support the Arizona Breeding Bird Atlas project, an AZ Game and Fish bird survey project in the 90’s. That project led to curiosity about the decline of Burrowing Owls in the West, and what could be done about it. In 2000 Greg decided to expand the earlier work started by Wild At Heart to rescue and relocate owls from areas about to be developed. Over 30 years this program has relocated thousands of owls to thousands of artificial burrows and received recognition from Cox Conserve Heros, The North American Bird Conservation Initiative, The John Muir Association, and others.