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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...

Harry Potter blamed for number of abandoned owls in Flintshire 2008-06-04
Harry Potter is being blamed for a rise in the number of owls being abandoned at an animal rescue centre. Staff at Flintshire Wildlife and Pet Rescue Centre say fans of the J K Rowling's boy wizard have bought owls as pets, only to find they can't cope with them. Co-owner of the rescue centre,...

Congratulations, Arizona! Pygmy Owls Born In Captivity By Mindy Blake, 2008-06-04
The first ever captive bred cactus ferriginous pygmy owls are Arizona natives! Four tiny birds were born from two pairs of adult pygmy owls this spring. It's all part of an effort to add to the wild population of these birds. Arizona Game and Fish started the experimental project last year, with ...

Owls, the new target of illegal bird traders By Sanjeeb Baruah, 2008-06-03
New Delhi, June 3 (IANS) Owls are becoming the latest target of illegal bird traders in India as they try ingenious ways to hoodwink the law with the demand for these nocturnal birds soaring in global markets. Bird experts say that three species of owls - the Barn Owl, Great Horned Owl and the E...

New Threats to the Spotted Owl Prompt By Noah Greenwald, 2008-06-03
PORTLAND, Oreg.— The Center for Biological Diversity, Umpqua Watersheds Inc, Cascadia Wildlands Project, and Klamath-Siskiyou Wildlands Center filed a formal notice of intent today to sue the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service for failing to reconsider the impacts of logging mature and old-growth fore...

U.S. eyes relisting owl as in danger By Dan Sorenson, 2008-05-31
The formerly endangered cactus ferruginous pygmy owl - the little bird that stopped bulldozers and shaped growth on the Northwest Side for several years - is being considered again for endangered listing. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service listed the 7-inch, 2.5-ounce, lizard-eating owl as en...

U.S. Fish and Wildlife to begin review of tiny owl's status 2008-05-31
TUCSON - The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has decided to conduct a yearlong status review of the cactus ferruginous pygmy owl in a move that could restore it to threatened or endangered species protection, the agency said Friday. The action comes in response to a petition from Defenders of Wild...

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