Dear Sirs -- Â First of all, I would like to thank the Tejon Ranch for recently issuing me a permit to access the ranch in order to view planned development...
"When Pete Bloom and I viewed vast areas of grassland on the ranch, we saw tons of ground squirrels, but no burrowing owls. I believe that the Tejon Ranch...
Ryan --  It reminded me of the Altamont Pass. There were large areas of treeless short grass with ground squirrels all over the place. Where there were...
Condor Experts Condemn Proposed Tejon Ranch Development Proposed "Conservation" Plan Will Hurt Endangered California Condors LOS ANGELES— A group of esteemed...
If anyone wants to read a reply to this posting, I can point you to several listservers which focus on raptors in general, their conservation, etc. I brought...
Below is a description of a banded BUOW photographed in San Diego last fall (October). It has plastic leg bands on both legs (and also an aluminum band on...
I suggest contacting two "Jeff's" -- Jeff Lincer of San Diego County and Geoff Holroyd of the Canadian Wildlife Service. Another possibility would be to...
I know that the California Burrowing Owl Consortium has developed color band protocols for use on breeding owls (and perhaps others) within California. It...
I would also try contacting Pete Bloom. I believe he had a grad student banding owls in Riverside? area. ______________________________ Ryan Young Phoenix...
DFG is looking for occupied buow habitat in the Antelope Valley in LA County to assist local conservancies to send developers to acquire as mitigation for loss...
I can report that I called Pete Bloom today to inquire about this matter. Pete does use plastic bands on burrowing owls, but not in the color described and...
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I have not been able to procure this one yet, so if Ryan or anyone can obtain this CEC report and place it in the listserver archives, I would be appreciative...
Smallwood, K. S., L. Neher, D. Bell, J. DiDonato, B. Karas, S. Snyder, and S. Lopez. 2009b. Range Management Practices to Reduce Wind Turbine Impacts on...
What is the best hotel near the BUOW consortium meeting? I will be going this year. Oh, the key is that I need one that offers a government rate. Suggestions? ...
Dear all --  The attached photo shows an adult double-banded Red-shouldered Hawk from my study area. I put a standard issue US Fish and Wildlife Service...
reference paper / comments below:: Journal of Wildlife Management 73(7):1082-1098. 2009 doi: 10.2193/2008-555 Influence of Behavior on Bird Mortality in Wind...
reference paper without abstract: Journal of Wildlife Management 73(7):1062-1071. 2009 doi: 10.2193/2008-464 Avian and Bat Fatality Rates at Old-Generation and...
see: http://people.oregonstate.edu/~rosenbed/articles/Updated%20Burrowing%20Owl%20Mgmt%20Plan%20for%20Naval%20Air%20Station%20Lemoore%20May%202009.pdf I noted...
Dear all -- The recent Rosenberg et al. update on the management plan for burrowing owls at Naval Air Station LaMoore in the San Joaquin Valley of central...
Thanks for archiving that file, Ryan -- My dial up interconnection is slow and my computer is slow and so it is really helpful to me when you store those...
 http://www.birdgrou p.org Not to be confused with the Santa Cruz Predatory Bird Research Group, which is now coordinated by Glenn Stewart, the (new) Bird...
I might have made an error in the statement below, so please allow me to clarify -- Â There may very well be room for confusion (and rightfully so) between...
Hello all -- Â I have just found some incredible documentation of seriously flawed research by Shawn Smallwood and Carl Thelander in their bird mortality...
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Dear all -- I have just added a California Energy Commission report commissioned to examine peer review of the Smallwood/Thelander report on mortality in the...