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...
Without addressing Mr. Moore's accusations or the issue of Flyway bird kills, it should be noted that many Americans support energy production on a ...
I saw this book on the shelf at Borders Books today. I do not recognize the name of the author, though he is described as a science writer and photographer...
I would urge all interested parties to read this report carefully and repeatedly and to notice particularly the repeated emphasis within the report of its own...
The charter of the Altamont Pass Scientific Review Committee says that there is to be no conflict of interest, including financial conflicts of interest that...
To concerned parties -- There does appear to be a serious and meaningful conflict of interest in a technical sense according to the charter of the Altamont...
... wrote: The Rocky Mountain Bird Observatory (http://www.rmbo.org) has placed on its website for public comment a new database that allows interested parties...
The Rocky Mountain Bird Observatory (http://www.rmbo.org) has placed on its website for public comment a new database that allows interested parties to query...
This is a real question that was posed to me by a stranger in Point Reyes Station, CA last weekend. I had just gotten out of my parked vehicle and I heard a...
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The new paper in Southwestern Naturalist, March 2008 issue on diurnal time budgets of burrowing owls in the non-breeding season, in my view, provides yet...
the meeting information can be viewed at: http://www.altamontsrc.org/alt_meeting_dates/src_agenda_23_24_april_2008.pdf I would like to attend this meeting and...
Ths most recent draft estimate of BUOW mortality in the Altamont Pass is just over 1250 owls killed per year, according to the monitoring team. The entire...