The Owl Foundation is a non-profit conservation organization that operates a centre for both the rehabilitation to release status of Canadian Owl species, and the behavioural observation of permanently damaged wild owls in a breeding environment.

The founders, Katherine and Larry McKeever, began working with injured owls in 1965 and incorporated as a registered Canadian charitable organization in 1975. The Foundation is administered by ten directors, employs a paid staff of four (Dr. McKeever is voluntary staff) and is helped in many important ways by a small number of reliable volunteers.

The long term purpose of this Foundation has been to create breeding environments where permanently damaged wild owls are monitored by remotely controlled video cameras. Many aspects of relationship formation of wild owls are unknown, seldom observed and never studied the year round. The centre maintains over thirty-five such cameras, shifted among 54 complexes covering 5 acres and is building a permanent behavioural record on tape.

Progeny from our breeding pairs, as well as orphaned foster chicks, are raised by their wild parents in the absence of visible people, learn to pursue and catch live rodents and are able to travel our unique corridor system to leave their parents' territories at the natural time of separation. Immatures of several species are released where a parent originated at the end of summer. However, the young of migratory and northern species are maintained on live food over winter and shipped (by air) in spring to parental breeding grounds.

The Owl Foundation permanently houses some 120 damaged, wild owls of Canada's sixteen native species, as well as supporting, to releasable condition, over 100 annual owl admissions.