Owl News Articles Index - Page 13

Great gray owls to get new nests with a little help from biologists By Dana M. Nichols, 2009-01-05
SAN ANDREAS - There's a housing shortage for great gray owls in the Sierra Nevada, and National Forest biologists are preparing to carve another 15 or so treetop cavities for the large nocturnal predators to use as nests. Although great gray owls also live in Washington, Oregon, Canada and th...

Snowy owl found in Greene County dies at Wildlife Center 2009-01-02
It looks as if Greene County's Arctic visitor, the snowy owl, did not survive his journey. On the Monday before Christmas, Dr. Dave McRuer, Director of Veterinary Services at the Wildlife Center of Virginia said that on the previous Saturday afternoon someone had brought in a sick snowy owl from ...

Snowy owls' travels explained By Bob Marcotte, 2008-12-31
For 20 winters, Tom McDonald has traveled from one end of the Lake Ontario plain to the other, from the Niagara River to the St. Lawrence, tracking and studying snowy owls. He has personally caught, banded and released more than 350 of these magnificent birds of prey (he has a federal license to ...

Healed snowy owl takes flight again By Matthew Spina, 2008-12-29
By the time the snowy owl was ready to go, it was eating about 15 mice a day and flying confidently through a flight cage that is 100 feet long and about 12 feet high. Soon after, the rehabilitation experts at the Hawk Creek Wildlife Center in East Aurora determined that the broken wing had h...

Author burrows into lives of owls By Brian Liberatore, 2008-12-25, 1 comment
Cape Coral's official bird has a rabid following - one that may help ensure its survival. Over the last two decades, local artist Betty Gilbert donned camouflage fatigues, loaded film in her camera and spent the predawn hours hiding in bushes. Since 1990, she has snapped thousands of pictures...

Snowy owls undertake unusual migration to PEI 2008-12-16
Charlottetown - Large, white, shadowy, deadly creatures have invaded Prince Edward Island. The snowy owl, usually found in more northern regions, have appeared in large numbers on PEI this fall and appear ready to stay for the winter. Reports have come in from a variety of locations across...

Breeding Owls Defecate Strategically By Stéphan Reebs, 2008-12-15
With a four-foot wingspan, the Eurasian eagle owl is a big bird with a big appetite - and a fecal output to match. Yet the owl's body waste does not always go to waste. New research suggests that breeding eagle owls defecate strategically, using their excrement to erect "No Trespassing&q...

Feds to reopen forests protecting spotted owl By Kim Murphy, 2008-12-14
Port Angeles, Wash. - Scott Gremel makes his way swiftly and surely up the steep trail, across a frigid stream, through colossal stands of hemlock and Douglas fir. On the ridgeline, thousands of feet above where he left his truck on the valley floor, Gremel points the antenna on his tracking ...

Snowy owls face starvation By Jordan Press, 2008-12-13
KINGSTON, Ont. - Sue Meech and her volunteers at the Sandy Pines Wildlife Centre have had some good news. A snowy owl that was hungry, injured and on the brink of dying was found near here. It looked as if the bird had been hit by a car, likely because lack of eating had sapped the bird of the ...

Rare owls sighted in Rann of Kutch By Himanshu Kaushik, 2008-12-12
AHMEDBAD: It was a rare sight that got nature lovers celebrating. A pair of Pallid Scops Owl was sighted in Jenabad in Surendranagar district. Dhanraj Malik, a bird watcher who first sighted it in his resort, says: "I could not believe my luck. First I was not able to ascertain what the bir...

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