Animal Attraction
“All our raptors have special powers,” says Ingrid Albion as she introduces me to Patchy, a one-eyed Tasmanian masked owl endemic to Australia’s island state. “Patchy’s is hearing—he can hear mice running under the snow.”
Patchy is one of the resident birds of prey at Tasmania’s (), an eight-hectare rehabilitation and conservation center established in 2001 by local veterinary nurse Craig Webb. Webb and his team take in wounded eagles, goshawks, falcons, and owls and nurse them back to health before returning them to the wild; Patchy was injured when he flew into a power line. Thanks to volunteers like Albion,
