The first book I read by Jennifer Ackerman was The Genius of Birds. I followed that up with her book, What An Owl Know. That inspired me to make this drawing. While hiking in Olympic National Park I was able to identify some owl scat on the base of a tree or two, letting me know an owl was perched way up high somewhere in that giant tree. I also know that after the Harry Potter films came out, too many people in too many countries bought owls as pets only to release them into the wild weeks later because they didn’t realize how difficult it would be to maintain them. Scientists made JK Rowling issue a statement to folks not to buy owls.
