Barn Owls in Loveland
Scott Rashid, owl researcher, holds a female barn owl that he banded in June on Saturday, July 22, 2017, before he placed a band on the leg of her four-week-old owllet. The wild owls nested in one of several boxes his nonprofit, Colorado Avian Research and Rehabilitation Institute, has placed in the region, this one in Loveland. (Pamela Johnson / Loveland Reporter-Herald)
A four-week-old barn owl makes a hissing noise as bird expert Scott Rashin prepares to place a band on the young owl's leg to track its movements on Sautrday, July 22, 2017, on a Loveland open space. Rashid's nonprofit, Colorado Avian Research and Rehabilitation Institute, wants to track the birds to study where they go and how long they live. ( Pamela Johnson / Loveland Reporter-Herald)
Scott Rashid places a tracking band on the leg of a four-week-old barn own that hatched in a nesting box placed at a Loveland open space. Rashid, pictured July 22, 2017 in Loveland, founded a nonprofit to study and help many different species of wild birds.
This numbered band will help bird conservationists learn about the patterns and habitat needs of barn owls. This four-week-old owl was banded Saturday, July 22, 2017, outside a nest box on a Loveland open space. (Pamela Johnson / Loveland Reporter-Herald)
Scott Rashid, founder of Colorado Avian Research and Rehabilitation Institute in Estes Park, displays bands that he and colleagues place on the legs of barn owls to help study their movements. He was preparing to band a baby barn owl born in a nesting box on a Loveland open space. (Pamela Johnson / Loveland Reporter-Herald)
Bird researcher Scott Rashid prepares to put a female barn owl back into a nest box with her baby on Saturday, July 22, 2017 in Loveland. (Pamela Johsnon / Loveland Reporter-Herald)
The bones of a vole were found inside an owl pellet in a nesting box placed on a Loveland open space to give barn owls a place to mate and rear their young. Owls eat rodents and then throw up the nondigestable parts into what is called an owl pellet, pictured here on July 22, 2017 in Loveland.