In Pursuit of a Tiny Owl Nicknamed Brad Pitt - The Tyee

Megan Buers is dodging potholes on a labyrinth of logging roads on northern Vancouver Island, hoping for a late-night rendezvous with a western screech owl. ANNOUNCEMENTS, EVENTS & MORE FROM TYEE AND SELECT PARTNERS What’s Up Docs? Female filmmakers find big ideas in even the smallest subjects in documentaries at VIFF Centre this month. “He’s the Brad Pitt of the screech owl world,” says Buers, a wildlife biologist. In avian lingo, that means this particular owl is a muscular and meaty example of his species, with rakish plumage. So far, Buers has seen the owl — but not yet managed to fit …