Our program is growing each year. So are our costs. With more owls we need more food and care for the birds, both for our breeding centres and in the field. Burrowing Owls do best when they are fed mice. You might be surprised to know that each owl can eat 2 mice a day. These cost just under $1.00 each. This year we’ll have over 120 owls to feed at our BC Wildlife Park facility alone. With 3 facilities our food budget for a year is over $200,000!

With more owls raised and released each year our program’s success is growing. Each year more owls return to the breeding ground from migration.
Our goal is that one day there will be enough burrowing owls returning to raise their families in BC grasslands, that they will no longer need our help.