A small, tenacious owl discovered trying to worm its way into a captive male's enclosure last weekend has found a love connection researchers hope will result in much-needed burrowing owl chicks. She guesses there are fewer than five mating pairs of wild owls left in Manitoba. Alexandra Froese, program director of the Manitoba Burrowing Owl Recovery Program, sits with Ko'ko, one of the owls in the program. It may have been the ideal environmental conditions in the field, or she could have heard the male owl calling for a mate. "I don't know all the inner workings of the burrowing owl dating life or things like that.

Source: CBC News June 06, 2018 11:14 UTC