Owl News Articles Index - Page 21

Owls thrive on Royal estate By Nicki Walker, 2008-05-26, 1 comment
Majestic barn owls and kestrels are booming in the Norfolk countryside thanks to a conservation project being run on the Queen's estates. The Crown Estate teamed up with the Wildlife Conservation Partnership back in 1991 to launch a barn owl and kestrel conservation project, in a bid to protect...

Burrowing owls make great neighbors By Leigh Tahirovic, 2008-05-25
Marco Islander Barbara Evans got some new neighbors this year. Living on the vacant lot next to her on Rose Court, these furry, feathered friends are actually burrowing owls. The owl family has lived next to Evans for the last eight years, and maybe even longer, she said. Just three weeks ago...

Residents urged to look out for owls By JL Watson, 2008-05-24
The babies peek their heads out from the burrow to catch a glimpse of the world outside. Soon, they will take flight, testing their flight skills on unsteady wings. Nearby, someone is almost always watching. "They're right by my window," Cape resident Soraya Matos said. "I w...

Baby owls get new home after accidental trip from Ellensburg By Steve Powell, 2008-05-22
It wasn't as hard as finding a needle in a haystack, but Randy Pritchett did help find three baby barn owls among 700 bales of hay. Pritchett said workers at Del's Farm Supply in Shelton were moving hay from Ellensburg when they heard hissing. "We thought they were rattlesnakes," he ...

Workers investigated in deaths of baby owls By Linda Goldston, 2008-05-21
A tree trimming crew in Gilroy is under investigation for possibly killing two baby barn owls, police and wildlife rescue officials said. The crew, which was under contract with the city of Gilroy, was warned twice there was a nest of barn owl nestlings in a palm tree cut down Saturday, said ...

Baby owls fall to their death By Sara Suddes, 2008-05-20
Two baby barn owls were killed when their nest fell from a tree. A third was injured and is currently recovering at the Wildlife Education Rehabilitation Center in Morgan Hill. When the city chopped the tree where the owlets lived near Alexander and Sixth streets Saturday, their nest fell, inju...

Plan for saving spotted owl recommends maintaining older forests west of the Cascades By Michael Milstein, 2008-05-17
A new federal strategy for saving the northern spotted owl calls for "substantially" maintaining all older forests on public lands from the west side of the Cascades to the coast, frustrating timber leaders anxious to free land for logging. That element of the new plan released Friday...

Who, who will help owls if not this man? By Joel Jacobson, 2008-05-16
BERNARD FORSYTHE climbs the ladder to check the owl nesting box. He looks down and says "Nothing here." The retired 66-year-old Wolfville man, who worked 40 years as a contractor for Royal Mail, is a saviour of barred owls, cavity nesters that are finding fewer and fewer areas wh...

New plan proposed to save northern spotted owls By Kathie Durbin, 2008-05-16, 1 comment
The Bush administration released a final recovery plan for the northern spotted owl Friday that backs away from some of the most controversial features of a draft unveiled last year. The final plan, developed by a group of federal biologists and outside scientists, proposes spending $489 mill...

Fourth-graders fuelling housing boom for owls 2008-05-14
LAKE FOREST – Though the real estate market may be soft, housing options are looking up for great horned owls in Lake Forest. A fourth-grade class at Everett Elementary School recently built and installed a nest for great horned owls, helped by a naturalist with Lake Forest Open Lands Associati...

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