Owl News Articles Index - Page 6

Raptor group releases rescued owl to wild By Karen Madden, 2010-09-09
Grand Rapids, Wisconsin, U.S.A. - When a person flagged down Rusty Roe while he was on routine patrol last fall, the Grand Rapids officer didn't know the resident needing help had feathers. Roe was told there was an owl in a ditch, apparently injured, and when he investigated, he saw the bird had its foot stuck in a trap. He ...

Judge orders government to revise plan to protect northern spotted owls By Eric Mortenson, 2010-09-02
Seattle, Washington, U.S.A. - In what conservation groups say is a win for science over political manipulation, a federal judge ruled Wednesday that the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service must revise its recovery and habitat designation plans for the northern spotted owl. Judge Emmet Sullivan said a 2008 plan issued durin...

Rescued owls grow up, are released into the wild in Anderson By Mike Ellis, 2010-08-21
Anderson, South Carolina, U.S.A. - Releasing an owl that he helped rescue was a great wedding present for Chuck Lister. He's getting married today. ''I kind of wish (the owl release) was on the day of our wedding, but then we'd be there and not here,'' Lister said while at Cater Lake Park in Anderson on Saturday evening. ...

Aylesbury Vale barn owl scheme receives extra funding 2010-08-16
Aylesbury Vale, Buckinghamshire, England, U.K. - The Aylesbury Vale barn owl scheme is a voluntary initiative. Barn owl boxes are made available to landowners with suitable land, for a small donation which pays for the boxes and the expenses of the volunteers. Barn owls rely on these areas of rough grassland, home to small mammals, to feed...

Rare ''brown fish-owl'' spotted in Turkey's Taurus mountains 2010-08-10
Taurus Mountains, Karaman, Turkey - Ketupa zeylonensis, one of Europe's rarest birds of prey more commonly known as 'Brown Fish-Owl', was spotted in Turkey's Taurus mountains. Ornithologists from Turkey based "Nature Association" announced they managed to take photos of three Fish-Owls in the Taurus mountains. No mor...

Twenty-year-old tawny owl discovered in Northumberland 2010-08-09
Kielder, Northumberland, England, U.K. - A 20-year-old tawny owl has been discovered near Kielder Castle Visitor Centre, Northumberland. The mother of four chicks has already doubled the average life expectancy of wild female tawnies in the North East. Brian Little, one of the leaders of the long running Kielder tawny owls projec...

Burrowing Owl Conservation Project Adopted By Earth Island Institute 2010-08-04
Brentwood, California, U.S.A. - Earth Island Institute has made a commitment to the preservation of burrowing owls in the San Francisco Bay Area, California and North America by approving a species-specific conservation project during its summer program review cycle. On July 24, 2010 the Board of Directors adopted the Burrowing Ow...

Coldstream's barn owls will have home on return By Andy Mead, 2010-07-25, 1 comment
Lexington, Kentucky, U.S.A. - Workers were putting the finishing touches late last week on an office building in North Lexington where a family of barn owls lived this summer. But fear not for the increasingly rare birds; a nesting box has been installed near the opening that they called home. The birds have what scien...

Davie gives a hoot about protecting burrowing owls By Phillip Valys, 2010-07-16
Davie, Florida, U.S.A. - The town of Davie gave a hoot recently during a park project aimed at protecting its burrowing owl population. Dozens of students from Indian Ridge Middle, environmental groups and Davie Vice-Mayor Susan Starkey dropped by the newly christened Owl's Lookout Park to dig three artificial burr...

Flying to a new home By Gail Cole, 2010-07-16
Philomath, Oregon, U.S.A. - Three injured barn owls, nursed back to health at the Chintimini Wildlife Rehabilitation Center, were released in rural Benton County on Thursday evening by volunteers from the center. The first two owls flew up and into a nearby field once their individual carrying boxes were opened. &q...

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