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    • Reception
    • Birding Bus Trip
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      • Kids' Hooting Contest
    • Medallion Hunt
    • Nest Box Building
    • Owl Prowl
    • Owl-Themed Food
    • Owl Pellet Dissection
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      • Live Owl Programs
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INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL OF OWLS

Kids' Hooting Contest

We hope you give a hoot! Each year we hold a hooting contest for kids, giving them the chance to show how well they can imitate owl calls. To participate come to the program at 1:00 at the Houston High School on Saturday to sign up and learn how to hoot. Groups of 5 kids will come up front at a time. Each child will announce the owl species they are imitating, then do their best to hoot, toot, or whistle like their chosen North American species. Judges will award points based on the correctness of rhythm and voice quality. When the children have finished we should have time for a few brave adults to imitate some owl calls too.
The top three kids are given medals, and everyone gets a participation prize for being brave enough to hoot like an owl in front of a large audience.
Recommended species to imitate include:
Great Horned Owl  (Bubo virginianus)
Barred Owl (Strix varia)
Northern Saw-whet Owl (Aegolius acadicus)
Eastern Screech-Owl (Megascops asio)
Great Gray Owl  (Strix nebulosa)
Long-eared Owl  (Asio otus)
If you're interested in brushing up on your hooting skills, you can review the calls of various other owl species at
The Owl Pages
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Owling.com
Xeno-canto.org
1:00 PM Saturday, March 4, 2023 at the Houston High School
No pre-registration necessary, but an admission wristband is required.
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The International Festival of Owls is a fundraiser for the International Owl Center and the Center’s biggest event of the year.