Owl News Articles Index - Page 17

Owls about that then? 2008-09-23
Nesting boxes are helping to protect one of Britain's most iconic birds. Cheshire's barn owls have been attracted back into Delamere Forest, thanks to a conservation project. The RSPB estimates there are now only around 4,400 pairs of the species left living in the wild in the UK. Olive...

Judge blocks Oregon logging project By Jeff Barnard, 2008-09-15
GRANTS PASS, Ore. - A federal judge has blocked a project designed to reduce the risk of wildfire while turning out mature timber from an old growth forest reserve on the Deschutes National Forest, saying it causes too much harm to spotted owl habitat. U.S. District Judge Michael J. Hogan r...

Largest owls in the world threaten British birds By Michael McCarthy, 2008-09-15
Several pairs of eagle owls, the largest owls in the world, are now breeding in the wild in Britain, according to a new study. But it is unlikely they will ever be considered British birds as they escaped from a large pool of birds kept in captivity. With its prominent ear tufts, 6ft wings...

Fourteen barn owl offspring and counting By Peter B. Brace, 2008-09-10
For barn owls, Nantucket is becoming the place to catch rodents at night, hang out with their dates in a small box high up on a pole and raise chicks. This summer, 36 barn owl boxes sprinkled around the island on private properties produced 14 chicks and counting, reported Maria Mitchell Asso...

Animal rights protesters release owls 2008-09-08, 1 comment
A number of owls were released from a bird sanctuary by animal rights protesters, staff at the site said today. Around 10 birds were missing from Suffolk Owl Sanctuary, near Stowmarket, when staff arrived this morning to find locks on their cages had been smashed and cut and wire removed. ...

Fears mount over missing owls By John Howard, 2008-09-06, 1 comment
Sanctuary owners are today desperately trying to trace three owls who they fear will die in the wild after vandals opened their cages. It is believed animal rights campaigners could be responsible for breaking open 30 cages at the Suffolk Owl Sanctuary in Stonham Barns, near Stowmarket. In t...

Oregon study: inbreeding threatens spotted owls 2008-09-02
CORVALLIS, Ore. - Declines in populations of the endangered northern spotted owl are leading to inbreeding and a resulting lack of genetic diversity needed for survival, making the birds more prone to disease and other problems, a report by an Oregon State University scientist concludes. Th...

Rare owl chicks taken from centre 2008-08-31
Staff at a Cumbria owl centre have been left devastated after the theft of two rare chicks. The young chaco owls, worth £400 each, were taken in a raid at the Furness Owl Centre in Barrow. It is the sixth time in three years that the Owl Centre has been the victim of attacks in which birds...

Foul Owls Use Feces To Show They Are In Fine Feather 2008-08-24
Some years ago, within the Department of Conservation Biology of the Estación Biológica de Doñana (EBD-Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas; Seville, Spain), a recently established group (colloquially named the Night Ecology Group) started to explore the possibility of visual communicatio...

Spotted owl's diminishing numbers have some fearing species is doomed By Warren Cornwall, 2008-08-24
Seattle - The northern spotted owl - an endangered icon that 14 years ago spurred a rescue effort so sweeping it brought old-growth logging to a virtual standstill in the Northwest - is now closer than ever to extinction. While there is disagreement over how bad it could get, some are contempla...

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