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Bats & Owls
Please see the information on bats in Our Living World: Mammals and owls in Our Living World: Birds (both REF J574 - found in the Wilton Library Children's Reference section) and try searching our catalog for either of the subject words owls or bats combined with juvenile (enter words with a space between them).
Don't forget to ask the librarian if there are books set aside on school reserve for these topics!
Mon, Fri: 10-6; Tue-Thur: 10-7; Sat: 10-5; Sun: 1-5 (Sept-June)
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- Animal Bytes: Bats
- From Sea World Busch Gardens, this site has fast facts, fun facts, and information on why bats are important to our world.
- Bat House
- Everything you need to get started attracting bats to your yard.
- Bat Conservation International
- Many things people think they know about bats aren't even true. This enormous site has lots of information for kids interested in finding out the truth about these interesting creatures.
- The Buzbee Bat House Temperature Plot
- This award-winning page has an absolutely amazing number of links to fun and interesting bat information. WOW!
- Desert USA: Batsin the Desert Southwest
- Lots of general information here about bats of the southwestern desert.
- Organization for Bat Conservation
- See "bat houses" for links to information on bats that live in houses (little brown bat, big brown bat, and the Brazilian free-tailed bat), "bat information" for general facts, and "echolocation" to learn how bats hunt for food in the dark.
- Yahooligans: Bats!
- Lots of news and information.
Owls
- The Burrowing Owl: An Alberta Perspective
- This Canadian site has links and information about the burrowing owl.
- OwlCam Home Page
- Watch a pair of owls as they build their nest and raise their young.
- The Raptor Center (University of Minnesota)
- Scroll down the page to facts about several different kinds of owls.
- What is a Raptor?
- Pictures and lots of information from the Deschutes National Forest.
