Superb Owl: An Audubon Southwest/Arizona Wilderness Brewing Company Collaboration
RSVP Link: https://act.audubon.org/a/pre-superb-owl2023
In February, people will be flocking to Arizona for Super Bowl LVII, scheduled for February 12 in Glendale, but we all know there is a lot more flying through Arizona skies than footballs. That's why we're teaming up with Arizona Wilderness Brewing Company to celebrate Arizona's owls with our latest Western Rivers Brewers' Council collaboration: Superb Owl. Starting on January 24th, head to Arizona Wilderness' Instagram to vote on head-to-head matchups between Arizona's outstanding owl species. Over several weeks, your votes will narrow the field from 12, to six, to three, and finally to one: the Superb owl.
The winner will be announced during a Birds & Beer party at 5:30pm on Thursday, February 9th at the Nina Mason Pulliam Rio Salado Audubon Center. The event is free, open to the public, and will feature a presentation from Spotted Owl biologist Amanda Moors, representatives from Audubon Southwest and Arizona Wilderness, and live owls courtesy Liberty Wildlife. To accompany the contest, Arizona Wilderness is brewing a special beer (also called Superb Owl). A lime-infused amber lager, it will be available in cans and on draft at Wilderness' taprooms in Gilbert at Downtown Phoenix. Cans and draft pours will also be available for purchase during this event.
About the speaker: Throughout her career, Amanda Moors has done it all - studied black bears in the forests of Maine, taken to the skies for aerial surveys of big game animals, scoured grasslands for elusive box turtles, and traveled to the edges of the land (literally) to survey those hard-to-identify shorebirds. However, if you mention her name around conservation professionals in Arizona, there's one species that's bound to come up: the Mexican Spotted Owl, a protected species listed as Threatened under the Endangered Species Act. Since the early 90s, Amanda has been surveying for and studying this montane forest and canyon-dwelling owl, providing invaluable data to land managers and wildlife agencies that have greatly aided in its conservation. Through this work, she's traveled from the ponderosa pine forests of central and northern Arizona to the Sky Islands in the southeastern corner of the state. During her presentation, we'll learn more about the imperiled Mexican Spotted Owl, what it takes to survey for them, and more.
Spotted Owl. Photo: Sean Kite/Audubon Photography Awards.
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