10,000 Birds
OCTOBER 25, 2016
In Oregon, the Barred Owl is taking over Northern Spotted Owl territory and threatening that smaller bird’s survival. On the other hand, the extinction of the Spotted Owl is completely unacceptable. Agonizing quandaries concerning invasive species are well-known to wildlife biologists.
10,000 Birds
JUNE 22, 2011
It’s not fecal material, but parts that are not digestible like fur, bones and the exoskeletons of insects. Many are familiar with dissecting owl pellets, but several birds will caste a pellet including hawks, eagles, gulls, herons and heck, I once witnessed a Scissor-tailed Flycatcher hack up a small one.
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10,000 Birds
JULY 18, 2012
Current well-intentioned environmental pressures to emphasize harvesting large dead or dying trees, if realized, would have further adverse effects on such ecologically and esthetically important species as woodpeckers, swallows, wrens, nuthatches, and owls – to name a few 1.”
10,000 Birds
APRIL 18, 2021
The finders of an adult Barred Owl brought to Kathryn Dudeck in Georgia thought he had a wing fracture, so they wrapped the entire bird in the plastic protective wrap used by landscape companies and taped it up. Yes, there was an American Kestrel inside!” said Alix Parks of Happinest Wildlife Rehab in Tennessee.
10,000 Birds
FEBRUARY 4, 2016
The only mammals of the day were feral Nutrias (Coypus), aquatic rodents originally from southern South America released from the bankrupt fur-farms and well established here. In this light, all beaks are dark! We counted more than 35 of them, relaxed and fearless, clearly not hunted.
10,000 Birds
JULY 14, 2011
When it is caught, it pisses all over itself, so that the fur is unfit to use, even though it could be put to many good applications.&# A subject that Aelian returns to again and again is the still-contentious issue of the animal mind , and to what degree the creatures he describes can be accurately said to learn, reason, and have morals.
10,000 Birds
AUGUST 26, 2012
I knew that it was a behaviour that was common in owls but I had never even heard of it with hawks before. “Well, I won’t be needing this any longer” Up until this moment I did not realize that not only owls upchucked undigested pellets of bone and fur. I, to that point, had had no idea that hawks did that.
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