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Barred Owl Love, Freakin Owlsome!

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Mike and Corey (the guys that keep us all in line here at 10,000 Birds) are probably reading this and saying, “Yeah right” Well, it really doesn’t matter what my excuse is because what I’m about to share is freakin owlsome! Amazing that they named their restaurants for these lovely owls.

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The Breezy Point Snowy Owls and the Chaos They Caused

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Snowy Owls are iconic birds. You rarely find a person – birder or non – who doesn’t want to take a good long look at a bright white owl. And, of course, you rarely meet a photographer who doesn’t want to take a good close picture of a bright white owl. What is your policy on reporting owl sightings?

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Champions of the Flyway – the Dakar Rally of Birding

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During this year’s competition, each team raised money for – and awareness of – the illegal trapping of migratory birds in Cyprus , a fitting cause for a race that celebrates the miracle of migration. Since 1974 it has been illegal to harvest birds there with mist-nets and limesticks. Rare footage of Desert Tawny Owl.

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Shutting Your Trap

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The trap had been set in the woods right next to my house. What you did was illegal,” he said. A recent thread on my Raptorcare listserv produced one wildlife rehabilitator’s nightmarish photo of a leghold trap firmly clutching the leg of a Great Horned Owl. No owl, just the leg. I’d released birds there.

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The Struggle to Save the Birds of Honduras

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Everyone talks about human rights and there exists so many groups that are either governmental or non-governmental who work toward that cause. But, what about the rights of those who cannot defend themselves? On top of being illegal to capture and sell birds in the country, it is also immoral. It is quite simple.

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Rarer than Tigers: the Indian Wild Dog

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In the morning, still sleepy, we enter the jungle, where a sounder of Indian Boars (a long-maned subspecies Sus scrofa cristatus ) is watching us, standing among the first trees, right next to the road. Previous posts about the same tour: Melghat Tiger Reserve: The Search for the Rarest Owl of India. It is too early to show.

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Have There Been Any Positive Aspects of the Malheur NWR Occupation?

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Below photo of Great Horned Owls at Malheur NWR fire lookout tower, photo by Terry & Kay Steele, nature photographers. What has been the Republican response to this illegal occupation ? Here’s a video of Ted Cruz agreeing with the ultra right-wing crazies and promising to grant them their wish. www.youtube.com/watch?v=flLFQnW7CUc.

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