Look & Listen

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The Great Horned owl is one of the earliest nesters in Lethbridge, laying eggs sometimes as early as March. To get a head start they don’t build their own nest, but instead use a previous year’s nest built by another large bird such as a hawk or a magpie. There are many different species of owl, 7 of which can be found in Southern Alberta, but the Great Horned owl is arguably the most widely known, and easily recognizable by their distinctive “inquisitive” call.

Bird recordings courtesy of The Cornell Lab of Ornithology