The owl rescued from the Rockefeller Center Christmas tree this year is taking off as a bona fide celebrity — and she’s got her own book to prove it. Rockefeller, or Rocky, who hitched a ride inside the towering Norway spruce last November, is the subject of the new children’s book “Rockefeller the Christmas Owl,” written by T. Troy Kolo and illustrated by Meredith Miner. The adult northern saw-whet owl, from the smallest owl species in the Northeast, was found trapped in the 75-foot tree; its rescue amassed a following on social media (see: #RockefellerOwl). She was named Rockefeller, wrapped in a bright orange blanket and rehabilitated at the Ravensbeard Wildlife Center in Saugerties, N. Y. imagines the events that led the nocturnal bird to Rockefeller Center.

Source: Los Angeles Times December 17, 2020 19:18 UTC