Owl News Articles Index - Page 1

The wit to woo By John Ross, 2008-05-14
The time may be right, if perhaps not the place or the climate. But circumstances have brought two snowy owls together in the Western Isles, and it is hoped that love could be in the air for the unusual visitors. A female snowy owl was spotted over a week ago at the RSPB's Balranald Reserve o...

Student birders weave nest for owls By Frank Abderholden, 2008-05-08
LAKE FOREST - The great horned owls here know "hoo, hoo, hoo" loves them. Everett Elementary School's fourth-grade class recently helped build a nest large enough for a great horned owl to raise its young. It's a big bird, the largest owl in North America at two to four pounds, and ...

Helping hand for South Lakeland barn owls 2008-05-08
Barn owls in the South Lakes are being given a helping hand. Wildlife rangers from Grizedale Forest have teamed up with the World Owl Trust at Muncaster Castle to launch a new barn owl conservation project in the Rusland Valley, between Coniston and Newby Bridge. Britain's barn owl populatio...

Albany builds burrows, hoping to attract owls By Linda Fan, 2008-05-04
The City of Albany has put up a half-mile-long fence at the Albany Plateau recently, hoping to create a habitat for burrowing owls. The project was planned after a burrowing owl habitat at Gillman Street, a few miles south of the Plateau, was replaced by ball fields. Five East Bay cities, ...

Pair of rare owls go missing from National Zoological Park 2008-05-04
NEW DELHI: A pair of rare Great Horned owls were reported missing from their enclosure inside the National Zoological Park (NZP) on last Sunday morning. The police at Nizamuddin police station was informed about the incident, said the zoo director, D N Singh. The bird is listed under the schedule I ...

Baby Owls Lose Hay Bale Homes By Rudabeh Shahbazi, 2008-05-03
BENTON CITY - Barn owls nest in hay bales. It's normally a warm, safe place to tuck their little babies. But now is the time farmers start moving those hay bales, and the baby owls lose their homes. There is no shelter for birds in the Tri-Cities, so one Benton City woman is taking matters into h...

Tiny shrew a big hope for dwindling owls By Ed Carty, 2008-04-29
The discovery of a tiny new mammal in Ireland may be the key to reviving dwindling populations of the elusive barn owl, environment experts said yesterday. BirdWatch Ireland revealed students have made the first record of the greater white-toothed shrew, a mouse-like animal about the size o...

Spotted owls struggle to survive as rival moves in By Angela Hart, 2008-04-27
Two birds of prey are competing for food and habitat on the same small patch of old-growth forest in the Marin Headlands. Muir Woods is a sanctuary for the white-freckled and gold-streaked creature of the night, the northern spotted owl, listed as threatened since 1990. But another owl, an...

AU Raptor Center releases eastern screech owls into wild By Katie Stallcup, 2008-04-11
A crowd of 45 people trooped through the woods Friday evening, following a small group carrying six foam boxes through the Forest Ecology Preserve. It was what was in those boxes that the crowd, armed with flashlights, binoculars and cameras, wanted to see. The Auburn University Southeast Ra...

Owl in a day's work 2008-04-10
The Local Barn Owl Synergy Symposium held recently at Sheepdrove Eco Conference Centre in Lambourn brought together country enthusiasts to help Barn Owl populations in the region. Countryside and community groups included The Ramblers, the Wychwood Barn Owl project from Oxfordshire, Butterfly C...

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