Environmental Efforts

Wild Wings of California actively cooperates with other organizations to promote environmental awareness, research, and ecological solutions. Following are some examples.

• Many owls have been released at local golf courses by request because the course managers want to use more natural forms of rodent control.
• Congratulations to the Industry Hills Golf Course for discovering a unique and very satisfactory way of solving their Coot problem.
• Blood samples have been donated to researchers who are investigating raptor gene pool dynamics.
• Los Angeles County is working to curtail major springtime pruning so that bird nests and nestlings will no longer be swept up and run through the wood chipper along with the tree trimmings

A Claremont College student attaches a tracking transmitter to a Barn Owl's tail feather.

The small transmitter and trailing antenna is hardly visible. Upon release, the barn owl never seemed to notice that he had been wired.