140 Australian Owls
About this episode
Most of us live closer to owls than we realise. Beth Mott introduces us to Australia’s owls and their unique behaviours, and what we can do to help them survive.
Birds featured: Australian Boobook, Barking Owl, Christmas Island Boobook, Eastern Grass Owl, Eastern Barn Owl, Greater Sooty Owl, Lesser Sooty Owl, Masked Owl, Powerful Owl, Rufous Owl and Tawny Frogmouth (not an owl).
Beth Mott currently works for the NSW State Government in the Saving our Species program - playing in grass and searching for Glossy-Black-cockatoos. She spent many years of fun with BirdLife Australia helping citizen scientists find their joy in owls, and owls find their joy in beautiful bushland homes. For years prior to this, at universities in the Wet Tropics and Greater Sydney, Beth chased lizards, made racy cartoons for fish, taught students how to catch mice and marsupials in the forest, cuddled quolls and rock-wallabies, and spent a long time listening to the voices of trees. Today her joys revolve around creeks and all that are in and above them. Beth is a gal who just loves an owl.
