The Florida Atlantic University Owls, the unlikely NCAA Men’s Final Four team, has a few things in common with its feathered mascots: They flock together—and they are underdogs
Efforts such as those at FAU, designated as a burrowing owl sanctuary by the Audubon Society in 1971, have made a difference for local populations of the species. In a January 2023 assessment, 53 burrows were counted on campus, with an estimated 34 owls living in them.
The owls dig their own burrows or move into unoccupied tunnels made by gopher tortoises, another threatened species that lives on FAU’s campus.
The consultant proposed a new mascot: the FAU sharks. “Everybody rose up and said, ‘get out of here’,” Norman says. “The students, the faculty, the alumni, they said, ‘We love our owls’.”
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