Owls
Please support Suffolk Owl Sanctuary by adopting one of the beautiful birds featured below with a one-off donation or a small regular payment to help the Sanctuary as it strives to survive. Thank you.
Plop, Barn Owl
Plop the Barn Owl joined our team on the 18th of May 2021 as a fluffy owlet of 3 weeks old. In the last decade, our very famous Barn Owl, Cobweb, took the responsibility of being the ambassador for all owls, for our education programs and shows, and built up a very strong following! Plop has had a busy year, learning how to participate in the sanctuary’s educational flying displays during the Spring and then putting all she had learnt into practice over the summer months
Titch, Tawny Owl
Titch is our young female tawny owl of 8 years old that was hatched at the centre June of 2016. Over the last few years, Titch has proved to be a fantastic ambassador for the sanctuary. Born at the centre, she spent her early years as a valuable member of the educational outreach team, visiting schools and public events, helping to spread the conservation message and highlighting the plight of threatened wild species specifically.
Woody, Brown Wood Owl
Woody hatched in May 2015 and arrived at the Sanctuary in September 2018 after her previous keeper was no longer able to care for her. Happily we were able to commit to offering Woody a life-long permanent home. When she first arrived she was quite shy but after several weeks of settling in to our routine she began to relax and her character started to shine through. Woody took to our free flying displays in her stride and although a little shy of the audience at first, with thoughtful handling she quickly overcame her reservations. Woody has the most distinctive calls of all our owls and she has a very humorous habit of falling asleep half way through her routine!
Loki, Snowy Owl
Loki was hatched here at the Suffolk Owl Sanctuary on 5th June 2004 and for his first four years, was a star of our flying displays, amazing the crowds with his totally silent low flying skills just over the heads of the audience. Loki has now retired and resides in an aviary with his mate Mishka, who definitely wears the trousers in that aviary!
Cecil, Spectacled Owl
Cecil is now an established member of our summer flying team. Being a very amenable bird and a real character, Cecil enjoys nothing better than interacting with visitors and exhibiting his spectacular flying skills during our daily displays. His comical ’spectacles’ render him instantly recognisable and popular… especially with bespectacled children!
Holly, Little Owl
Holly is our wonderful little owl who has been with us at the centre since the very beginning. She loves to watch the visitors pass by during the day while soaking up the sun.
Gus, Northan White-Faced Owl
Gus is our Northern White Faced Owl. He came to Suffolk Owl Sanctuary in March 2024 from Banham Zoo and settled into his new home very quickly. He was hatched and raised by our Deputy Manager, Emily, in her home when his egg was rejected by the parent birds. When Gus hatched out of his egg, the first thing he saw was a human, and therefore he is what’s called an imprinted owl because he was raised by a human mum instead!
Tura, Siberian Eagle Owl
(Tura wears a beautiful thick plumage of pale feathers, which aids in camouflaging her in her native habitat of snowy tundra. Tura’s favourite weather, of course, is cold, frosty days, so her appearance in the shows is very much temperature-dependent! Tura can often be seen flying in shows and courses at the start and end of the show season to avoid the hotter weather. During the summer, she has a much-needed moult and plenty of cool baths!
Twiglet, Long-Eared Owl
Twiglet has enjoyed a nice rest for the start of this year being fed all the food she wanted and going through her moult, Now she has nice new feathers she is in with the flying team and has started her training to hopefully become part of the indoor display we will be doing over winter, she has been doing an incredible job with the training and gets excited now when she sees one of the team members coming in for a training session, she's gone from sitting on her favorite perch and sleeping most days to flying the whole length of our training corridor and looks strong and healthy, She just needs some practice now in our indoor display area and hopefully she will be a regular in our indoor displays this winter.
Ember, Melanistic Barn Owl
Ember, the melanistic barn owl, joined us during July of 2021 as a young owlet of 4 weeks to join our team of free-flying education birds. Ember is an incredibly rare melanistic barn owl, which means he is almost pure black—a genetic mutation found in only one of 100,000 wild birds. As his name suggests, his beautiful orange markings around his face and wings look like burning embers, and if you look closely at his wings, it is almost like they are covered in shining stars! Once trained, Ember will be featured in shows alongside a more commonly seen pale barn owl to show off the impressive diversity of one of our most famous native birds.
Templeton, Burrowing Owl
Templeton has settled into life at Suffolk Owl Sanctuary very well so far, arriving from a center in the New Forest to join our female burrowing owl, Thelma. They seem to be getting along nicely and are often seen sharing a perch in their aviary, watching the world go by together. Templeton is only a year old, but we hope that He and Thelma continue to get along well, and thave even welcome some burrowing owl chicks!
Amri, Verreaux’s Eagle Owl
Amari, our Verreaux’s Eagle Owl, also know as Milky Eagle Owls, has become a big personality here at the Suffolk Owl Sanctuary. She's full of energy and personality, she loves to let her presence known with her loud calls whenever anyone walks past her enclosure, and she is making fantastic progress with her free flight training, showing off her striking looks and big personality as she soars through the sky
Bandit, Great Grey Owl
Bandit is on the flying team, and is doing an incredible job! He’s been enjoying wowing audiences with his wingspan, and giving lots of free hair cuts by flying low over heads, whilst guests learn all about his species. Despite officially being the tallest of all the owl species, great grey owls are actually very lightweight, weighing less than a bag of sugar!