Burrowing owls released onto Alberta prairie as part of efforts to bolster endangered species

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CBC News: Still only owlets when they were brought to the Calgary Zoo last summer, 20 burrowing owls have since been returned to the wild in southeastern Alberta. “They grew up into adults at the zoo over winter,” said Graham Dixon-MacCallum, a conservation research population ecologist with the Wilder Institute/Calgary Zoo.

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