Owl News Articles Index - Page 51

Sixth-graders take care of owls, and learn in the process By Donna Vavala, 2007-04-29, 1 comment
Panama City Beach, Florida, U.S.A. - A sixth-grade class at Surfside Middle School gives a hoot about owls. The kids took a tutorial on the nocturnal birds and expanded on it in a big way. They constructed and painted a 2-by-3-foot wooden box they hope will be home to an owl family. A bucket truck hoisted the box into a pine tree on...

U.S. proposes killing owls to save another 2007-04-28
Portland, Oregon, U.S.A. - A few hundred aggressive cousins of the threatened northern spotted owl may be killed by government agents with shotguns under a proposed federal plan. The spotted owl was listed as threatened 17 years ago, and its numbers continue to dwindle through much of its range in the Pacific Northwest, fe...

Officials say they'll shoot barred owls for threatening northern spotted owls By Dylan Darling, 2007-04-27, 2 comments
Northwest U.S.A. - Forget logging and habitat loss, the biggest threat to the northern spotted owl is another owl, federal wildlife managers say. A draft recovery plan released Thursday by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service targets the barred owl as the primary threat to the controversial critter whose listing for ...

Environmentalists say feds trying to weaken spotted-owl forest plan By Warren Cornwall, 2007-04-26
Seattle, Washington, U.S.A. - A proposed plan released today for restoring the endangered northern spotted owl to health has triggered renewed charges from environmentalists that the Bush administration is again trying to undermine protection of the region's old-growth forests. The draft recovery plan contemplates two optio...

Who needs a tree? Owl lives on smokestack By Shawn Patrick, 2007-04-13
Valmont, Colorado, U.S.A. - In the warm and snug confines of XCEL Energy's Valmont Plant, you'll find a few owls living rent free. The plant put in a box nest a few years ago. The owls soon followed and so did a camera for web viewers. ''We get e-mails from people wanting to know what's going on. They're concerned abou...

University fight to save barn owls 2007-04-12
York, England, U.K. - Pioneering research at the University of York is to swoop to the rescue of barn owls, whose population has plummeted in the last 75 years. Dr Nick Askew, of the university's Department of Biology, has produced a leaflet that reveals exactly the kind of environment the bird needs in order to survi...

Male owls pitch their hoots to advertise body weight to competitors By Patricia Morse, 2007-04-02
Europe - Why do male owls hoot? Researchers from the Centre d'Études Biologiques de Chizé (France) and the University of Sussex (UK) have studied the vocal communication of male European Scops owls, one of the smallest living species of nocturnal raptors. The study, published in the April issue of the Americ...

Owls and their nest boxes are exterminating pests at wineries By Joel D. Amos, 2007-04-02
Escondido, California, U.S.A. - In the ecological world of vineyards, the delicate balance between success and the failure of a crop can easily shift from good to bad by a scourge of menaces - rodents and insects. Dotting the landscape of the San Pasqual Valley's Orfila Vineyards are large house-like boxes sitting atop enormo...

Barn owls in Britain in decline By Greg Williams, 2007-03-31
England, U.K. - BNP report that evironmentalists are concerned over a massive drop in UK barn owl numbers. Concern is growing over the country's barn owl population as reports from across Britain consistently report a big drop in numbers. So bad is the situation that some experts claim that there are barely 1...

University fight to save barn owls By Jeremy Small, 2007-03-26, 1 comment
York, England, U.K. - Pioneering research at the University of York is to swoop to the rescue of barn owls, whose population has plummeted in the last 75 years. Dr Nick Askew, of the university's Department of Biology, has produced a leaflet that reveals exactly the kind of environment the bird needs in order to survi...

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