Community Corner
Sharon Friends of Conservation Meeting & Lecture
Sharon Friends of Conservation invites all to its Annual Meeting and aSnowy
Owl presentation at the Sharon Unitarian
Church
(4 North Main St.) “Refreshments”
The presentation on snowy owls by Audubon
expert Norman Smith is most timely. This
year Massachusetts has experienced a record surge in snowy owl sightings.
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Norm has studied
birds of prey for over 35 years,
rehabilitated injured birds, and
fostered over 1,000 orphaned hawk and owl chicks into adoptive nests.
His 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 and National Wildlife .He is a self-taught
naturalist who has worked for the Massachusetts Audubon Society since 1974. His
current position is Director of Blue Hills Trailside Museum and the Norman Smith Environmental Education Center in
Milton, Massachusetts.