Education

Do you want to meet a burrowing owl?

Request a school or community presentation to learn about burrowing owls, what MBORP is doing to help burrowing owls in Manitoba, how biodiversity plays a significant role in our lives and how everyone can do their part to help!

To book a community presentation, contact us at mbburrowingowls@gmail.com.

School presentations - Choose your adventure.

Note: all presentations run approximately 60 minutes for an honourarium/donation of $250. Mileage fees are not included in donation.

Early years

Preschool to Grade 4

Option 1

“Storytime with Bindi” includes children’s story “Little Owl, Little Owl” and a live owl presentation.

Option 2

An interactive presentation (slide deck) and live owl presentation.

Both options have a question/answer period. Groups with 25 or less children will have the opportunity to get up close and personal with Bindi.

Book Early Years Presentation

Middle + Senior Years

Grades 5 to 12

Interactive presentation (slide deck) and a live owl presentation. Presentations include discussions about ecosystems, biodiversity, endangered species, grasslands, species-at-risk, burrowing owl breeding biology and MBORP’s recovery activities.

MBORP education presentations require that all school group presentations (Grades 3-12) have a component of in class discussion about species at risk (SAR), ecosystems in Manitoba, importance of protecting wildlife and their habitats, Burrowing Owls, and/or focus on other Manitoba owls’ prior presentation.

Book Middle/Senior Years Presentation
The words did you know on a yellow background

Burrowing Owls cannot dig their own burrow but require one for nesting. They need digging animals like foxes, badgers, and ground squirrels to excavate burrows for them.

An illustration of a burrowing owl