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Up close and personal with an owl and a hawk

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Spirit, a long-eared owl named for her will to live after being brought to the Flint Creek Wildlife Rehabilitation Center, always has the same expression says Dawn Keller, founder of the center. Spirit was part of Keller's presentation to the Kane County Audubon Society at the Pottawatomie Community Center in St. Charles.

John Starks | Staff Photographer

Dawn Keller, founder of Flint Creek Wildlife Rehabilitation Inc., holds Pennsylvania, a large female great-horned owl during the Kane County Audubon Society monthly meeting at the Pottawatomie Community Center in St. Charles. At 4 pounds, Pennsylvania is considered heavy. She is one of six birds of prey Keller uses for education purposes and cannot be released.

John Starks | Staff Photographer

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The namesake of the red-tailed hawk is evident on Volo, a juvenile hawk that was given to the Flint Creek Wildlife Rehabilitation center from an person in Volo. This raptor has organ damage and could never live in the wild. This type of hawk is abundant in Northern Illinois and can live for more than two decades. Volo is part of Dawn Keller's group of education birds.

John Starks | Staff Photographer

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Dawn Keller, founder of the Flint Creek Wildlife Rehabilitation center, recently visited the Kane County Audubon Society's meeting in St. Charles.