Karla Kinstler adopted Alice, a great horned owl, after she fell from her nest as an owlet and broke her wing in 1997. The centerpiece of the International Festival of Owls just laid an egg at 12 ...

The owl can thank Karla Kinstler, director of the Houston Nature Center, and her live mascot, Alice, the great horned owl. "Yea! I'm happy," Kinstler said Thursday.

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