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Opens Saturday, October 13
at the Museum
Award-winning photographer and environmental conservationist Paul Bannick examines the intertwined life histories of owls and woodpeckers and the unique role they have played in defining and enriching their often-threatened habitats. Based on Bannick’s critically acclaimed book of the same title, The Owl & the Woodpecker: Encounters with North America’s Most Iconic Birds, this beautiful exhibit explores North America’s most specialized species of owls and woodpeckers and the ecosystems upon which these birds depend.
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Great Gray Owl
With a wingspan of 52” and a height of 27”, the Great Gray is the largest owl in North America. Yet despite their great size, these owls are light, silent flyers that can locate prey using hearing alone, then break through snow and ice thick enough to bear the weight of a 180 pound person to come up with a vole.
Great Gray Owl. Photo by Paul Bannick.
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The Owl & the Woodpecker: Photographs by Paul Bannick was organized by the Burke Museum, University of Washington, created with Paul Bannick and Braided River, a partner of The Mountaineers Books.
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