AUBURN – Whoo knew? From banding snowy owls at Logan International Airport to tracking the birds by satellite telemetry, a talk that’s all about owls will highlight the Stanton Bird Club’s meeting on Monday, Nov. 6.

Norman Smith, director of the Blue Hills Trailside Museum and Chickatawbutt Hill Education Center in Milton, Mass., will speak on “Snowy Owls to Saw-whet Owls.”

Smith is a self-taught naturalist who worked for the Massachusetts Audubon Society for more than 30 years. A special interest in raptors led Smith to spend countless days and nights since 1981 in all weather conditions observing, capturing, banding and color marking snowy owls at Logan International Airport.

He has collected data on roosting, hunting and behavior while the owls were on their wintering grounds. Smith’s latest project involves tracking snowy owl movements using radio telemetry.

Smith has studied birds of prey (raptors) for more than 25 years, including rehabilitating the injured and successfully fostering more than 600 orphaned hawk and owl chicks of various species into adoptive nests.

Smith’s ongoing long-term projects include trapping and banding migrating hawks and owls in the Blue Hills Reservation, as well as banding nestling hawks and owls.

He has traveled to Alaska to study snowy owls in their native tundra habitat, and he has assisted Nature Science Network with two video tapes, “Hawks Up Close” and “Owls Up Close,” produced for the National Audubon Society.

Smith’s research work has been published in National Geographic, National Wildlife, Ranger Rick, Yankee, Massachusetts Wildlife, Bird Observer, Birding, Sanctuary, Geo, Nature, Grolier Encyclopedia, Owls of the Northern Hemisphere and Owls of the World.

Stanton Bird Club’s annual dinner meeting will be held Monday, Nov. 6, at the High Street Congregational Church. Dinner will be served at 6 p.m. and the program will be at 7 followed by a business meeting.

Reservations are required for dinner and the cost is $10 for adults and $7 for children under 12. There is no charge to attend just the program. For more information, call 782-5238.