Owl News Articles Index - Page 19

Commission, GLRA give a hoot about saving owls By Brad Rhen, 2008-07-11
HEILMANDALE — By their incessant screeching, it was obvious they didn't like it. But the bands placed around the legs of six barn owls Thursday will be to their benefit. Each band has a serial number to allow researchers to track how far an owl flies from its nest and how old it lives to be. &quo...

Burrowing owls at risk in East County By Ruth Roberts, 2008-07-10
Their natural predators include falcons, badgers and domestic cats and dogs, but humans pose the greatest threat to the littlest bird of prey known as the burrowing owl. "Burrowing owls are a species of concern in California because they live here in the ground," said Sherrill Coo...

Smuggled Eurasian Owl Makes Home In SF Zoo By Mike Sugerman, 2008-07-10, 1 comment
SAN FRANCISCO - A Eurasian eagle owl that was smuggled from Austria to the U.S. as a decorated Easter egg was officially transferred into the custody of the San Francisco Zoo on Thursday. The zoo officially welcomed the new member to its family at a press conference, and noted the owl's particu...

Call of the wild: Students lead project to track owls By Amy Phalon, 2008-07-09
Phil Solimine, who will be entering ninth grade at York High School in September, scrambled up a white pine on the morning of Monday, July 7, to install a cell phone for owls. Solimine, along with fellow ninth grade students Emily Rumble, Bryan Fountain, Tim McMahon and Alex Arau, are spend...

Settlement in WA spotted owl lawsuit 2008-07-03
OLYMPIA, Wash. - A settlement has been reached in a 2006 environmental lawsuit that sought to block logging on 50,000 acres of private timberland to protect the threatened northern spotted owl. On Thursday, the affected parties announced that a policy working group on spotted owl preservation w...

Give a hoot: Burrowing owls nest at park By Darren Meritz, 2008-07-02
A pair of burrowing owls discovered at Blackie Chesher Park has prompted park officials to pay special attention to caring for the little birds, which are a protected species of special concern in the Southwest and could be harmed by unwitting park visitors. A burrowing owl couple has been nestin...

Barn owl population soaring this spring on Nantucket By Peter B. Brace, 2008-06-18
Hatching from eggs, down-covered and wobbling around on unsteady legs are a veritable population explosion of new barn owls in owl boxes situated around the north side of the island this spring. Barn owls, not nearly as abundant on Nantucket as gulls, crows or even red-tailed hawks, took a beat...

Four Great Horned Owls Return To Nature 2008-06-15
SILT, Colo. - They came into Nanci Limbach's care at different times. But they left together, flying away from Limbach and others who helped them recover. On June 8, Limbach released four great horned owls back into the wild on an East Divide Creek ranch south of Silt after caring for them for ...

Burrowing owl rescue effort near Temecula appears to be working By David Danelski, 2008-06-13
Jared Bond leaned over a plastic pipe sticking out of the ground at a French Valley wildlife preserve and picked up a moist pellet that had been regurgitated by a burrowing owl. The bean-sized mass of ground-up bug parts found in a field east of Murrieta is evidence that an effort to save t...

Burrowing Owl Interpretive Centre digs up some grant money By Anne Kyle, 2008-06-10
REGINA - The Saskatchewan Burrowing Owl Interpretive Centre in Moose Jaw will be undergoing a much-needed makeover later this year. The centre received a $70,000 grant from the provincial Environment Ministry's Saskatchewan Green Initiative Fund and an additional $5,000 from the Shell Environ...

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