Folks -- First, an important resource that any owl bander should possess is Identification Guide to North American Birds, Part I by Peter Pyle. This is the...
riverside county BUOW burial ... This article was sent to you by someone who found it on SFGate. The original article can be found on SFGate.com here: ...
Folks -- I received an email from a citizen who asked whether they could attract either nesting or wintering burrowing owls by managing their property in a...
The link to the old Condor paper is: http://elibrary.unm.edu/sora/Condor/files/issues/v032n03/p0142-p0146.pdf This paper regarded a survey done in 1929 in...
I'm the "citizen" who wrote to Stan about using artificial burrows to provide an opportunity for BUOWs to live here in Napa County again. I'm more hopeful than...
Joyce -- Greg Clark is relocating burrowing owls from natural nests to artificial ones by active relocation. That requires trapping owls, building holding...
Hi Joyce, I just tried downloading the document without incident. Give it another try. If you continue to have trouble send me an email and I can email you a...
see: http://www.pbase.com/tgrey/owls05 I believe that Professor Lynn Trulio of San Jose State University has been studying the demography of burrowing owls in...
see: http://www.missioncollege.org/gen_info/owls_statistics.html#demo You can surf this site for more information on the burrowing owls at Mission College and...
I believe that the writer of the article got it wrong, perhaps misunderstanding what a biologst told them. In years of observing raptors of many species as...
The document is "Status Assessment and Conservation Plan for the Western Burrowing Owl in the United States" -- a publication by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife...
Below is an announcement of availability of the Proceedings of the California Burrowing Owl Symposium that I would like to post on the CA BUOW FORUM. ...
The Center for Biological Diversity from their website discussing the plight of California burrowing owls: "Throughout the vast majority of the burrowing owl's...
Hi Stan, Obviously there are some discrepancies in published opinions about the state of BUOW in CA. I haven't gotten a copy of the proceedings yet. Thanks...
Hi Ryan -- Yes, do get a copy of the proceedings! And bear in mind that Jeff Kidd and Pete Bloom and the other co-authors of the paper in question were...
Stan Moore notes: Here is the abstract from the July 2007 issue of the Journal of Wildlife Management. I must say that I am far from impressed by this...
Hello All, Just in case you didn't get the announcement, next meeting is in Brawley during the Salton Sea bird festival. Original message: Please join us for...
Friends and fellow raptorphiles and bird lovers -- It was awesome to see so many red-shouldered hawks in northern San Diego County recently, including in...