On Jan. 14, New York State Environmental Conservation Police Officer Dustin Osborne responded to a report of an injured baby owl in the town of Deposit. A family travelling state Route 8 discovered the owl in the roadway with what appeared to be a broken wing. Osborne, a member of DEC’s Division of Law Enforcement Wildlife Response Team, arrived and determined the owl was actually an adult Northern Saw-whet owl. Osborne transported the injured owl to a wildlife rehabilitation center in Hunter for care. The northern saw-whet owl, native to New York, is the smallest species of owl in the state and is most active at night.
