Three baby flammulated owls sit on the leg of Colorado College Flammulated Owl Project researcher Ross Calhoun as he prepares to weigh them in the Manitou Experimental Forest Sunday, July 7, 2013. Project leader and CC professor Brian Linkhart has been wo
A Colorado College Flammulated Owl student researcher sits with a baby owl on his head before taking the mass and measuring the flight feathers of the owlet in the Manitou Experimental Forest Sunday, July 7, 2013.
Colorado College Flammulated Owl Project leader Brian Linkhart climbs a ladder to retrieve and band a pair of baby owls as other members of his team help support the ladder in the Manitou Experimental Forest Monday, July 15, 2013.
Colorado College Flammulated Owl Project researcher Collin Knauss helps to support a ladder as another researcher expands the entrance to a nest to retrieve the owlets in the Manitou Experimental Forest Monday, July 15, 2013.
Researchers with the Colorado College Flammulated Owl Project weigh a baby owl in the Manitou Experimental Forest Sunday, July 7, 2013. The researchers have been weighing and taking feather measurements of the babies at three different nest sites in the r
Colorado College Flammulated Owl Project leader Brian Linkhart checks his field notes after discovering what he suspects to be two dead baby owls in a nest in one of the study areas in the Manitou Experimental Forest Monday, July 15, 2013.
Colorado College Flammulated Owl Project researchers measure flight feathers in molt on an adult male owl in the Manitou Experimental Forest Sunday, July 7, 2013. This owl, like many captured in this study, are caught with mist nets strung across an open
An adult male flammulated owl returns to his nest with food for his owlets in the Manitou Experimental Forest Sunday, July 7, 2013. Flammulated Owls survive on a diet that consists mostly of insects.
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