Uggla the Great Horned Owl
Someone I know (at least a little bit) passed away this week, Uggla the Great Horned Owl. Uggla was an Ambassador Owl residing at The Raptor Trust . I got the following in my Facebook feed this morning. It is with heavy heart that I bring sad news to you today: one of our very dearest ambassador birds, Uggla, the Great Horned Owl, has passed on. Uggla was an almost unimaginable 40 years old. In the research I have done, I believe he may have been the second-oldest Great Horned Owl that ever lived, and he lived almost every day of those 40 years right here at 1390 White Bridge Rd, Millington, NJ. In the early spring of 1980, I was a freshman in high-school. The backyard wildlife rehab facility that my parents ran on our property had not yet become The Raptor Trust. It was still The New Jersey Raptor Association at that point: not yet incorporated and without the 501(c)3 nonprofit status that would follow. A “fledgling” organization, one might say. But Len and Diane knew their bird...