Approximately 80 community members of all ages attended an educational program "All About Owls" at the Media Community Center on Sunday, February 25. The program was a joint effort by the Media, Nether Providence, Springfield, and Swarthmore Bird Town chapters, and featured educator Marcy Engleman from the John James Audubon Center (https://johnjames.audubon.org/), who presented numerous facts about owl biology.
Program attendees learned that owls can fly silently thanks to specially adapted wing feathers; that they cannot move their eyes in their sockets, but can swivel their heads nearly 270 degrees in order to see around them; and that the Great Horned Owl, one of North America's largest owls and one that is frequently heard locally, has a grip strength of around 200 pounds per square inch - nearly five times stronger than most humans!
