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Black magic curses owls By G. S. Mudur, 2009-01-28
New Delhi - Superstition and black magic are threatening owls in India. A six-month study of barn owls by a zoologist at the Maharaja Sayajirao University Baroda has revealed what he says is a uniform pattern of unnatural injuries that point to intentional twisting and breaking of wings. &...

Snowy owls swoop southward, delight birders By Mary Esch, 2009-01-27
ALBANY, N.Y. - Biologists say an increase in snowy owl sightings across northern states suggests that the arctic species is doing so well on its northern breeding ground that competition is driving the young ones south. The showy white owls of Harry Potter fame are spotted in small numbers in...

Snowy Owls Safely Removed From Logan Airport By Mish Michaels, 2009-01-27
Boston - This winter, Snowy Owls have been spotted in our area in huge numbers. Their favorite destination - Logan Airport. Although it is a long journey from the high Arctic, the icy tundra of Logan Field looks like home, attracting more Snowy Owls than anywhere else in the Northeast. &qu...

Snowy Owls Spottings Rise in New York By Yancey Roy, 2009-01-27
ALBANY, NY - Across New York, Snowy Owl sightings are on the rise this winter. From Buffalo to Long Island, from a grassy field in Greene County to the roof of the State Capitol in Albany, New Yorkers are spotting what appears to be an increase in the number of Snowy Owls traveling south from their ...

Bird lovers get wise to rare owls By Joanne Ginley, 2009-01-26
Birdwatchers have been flocking to a Yorkshire nature reserve that has become home to five long-eared owls. They have been seen almost every day for the past month near the Lin Dike hide on the Fairburn Ings reserve, near Castleford, but on Friday one was seen within three metres of the visitor...

Giving a hoot about sighting: Owl spotted well south of its usual habitat By John Koziol, 2009-01-26
The birding community is atwitter about a most unusual visitor to the Lakes Region - a northern hawk owl - whose presence, well south of its normal habitat in the arboreal forests of Canada, is drawing many visitors to the area around John Merrill's Coe Hill Road residence. On Jan. 12, Merr...

Owl on prowl: Visitor from north enjoying GM tour By Bob Hodge, 2009-01-25
SPRING HILL - Take a birdwatcher and throw him in a gene splicer with a hunter and what you get would be Gerry Dinkins. The Saturday morning before last, Dinkins was shivering in a layout blind on the edge of a private lake in Monterey, duck hunting. More hockey rink than water, it was a long s...

Burrowing owls block players at Miramar ball fields By Eileen Soler, 2009-01-25
Burrowing owls are calling ''you're out'' on softball at new ball fields in Miramar Regional Park. For now, anyway. At least two of the feathered critters classified as a ''species of special concern'' by the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission are living in separate sandy qu...

Rehabilitated owl moves into Sundance By Caleb Warnock, 2009-01-24
Sundance has a new fine-feathered resident today, a great-horned owl who goes by Henry. Sundance held its first night owling event of 2009 on Friday night, with about 20 people paying $30 apiece for the privilege of meeting three live owls before trekking into the night woods on snowshoes for a...

Rehabilitated owl released 2009-01-23
HOLLAND, Mich. - One group of kids is unlikely to forget a story of survival and hope that they witnessed Friday. A snowy owl got a new start on life Friday. Workers in Fennville had found the owl by a barn in November, sick and starving. He was emaciated, at 50 percent of his body weight. A...

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