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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.






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