Meet Mendel the Hybrid owl

Becky Collier from the Alabama 4-H center ( Coose River Science School) cares for a hybrid owl named Mendel . He is two years old and came to Becky after being born in a clutch of 5 belonging to mixed parents. The Center for Birds and Prey in Charleston, SC. thought they had two males in a shared habitat and only after the arrival of the clutch did they realize one was a female and she is an African Spotted Eagle owl . The father of our little hybrid owl was a  Vermiculated owl. The center offered the hybrid to the Science School to help care for the owl in captivity to prevent further hybrid  offspring  from being produced.

Mendel the hybrid owl recieved his name after the monk Gregor Mendel  best known for his studies on the  hybrid pea plants.