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...
Bird Tracks & Sign : A Guide to North American Species (Paperback) by Mark Elbroch (Author), Eleanor Marks (Author), C. Diane Boretos (Author) Note: There is...
The City of Albany (Northern Alameda County) is constructing a burrowing owl habitat on the plateau area of its waterfront. I don't think that the habitat is...
Clay -- It would be interesting to hear the State Fish and Game Department's reply to your query about the efficacy of this mitigation arrangement. I would...
Stanley, It would be interesting to hear the State Fish and Game's reply on this. I made several attempts to get something of an official response from CDFG...
Clay -- A few years ago when I heard that the state park was being planned in the East Shore, I took note of the abundance of ground squirrels in one area and...
Howdy, Just wanted to pass on a Burrowing Owl trapping method techinque that I have been having a lot of success with. It involves using a Havaheart live trap...
Please forgive this off-topic post. But I thought some folks here who monitor burrowing owl territories in California might encounter breeding Greater...
Hi Ryan -- How many owls have you captured with this technique? >50? What time of day/night is this setup most effective? Have you had any problems with...
Hi Stan,  I've caught about 60 so far using this method.  No feathers caught in doors. Owl are always in the middle of the trap when doors close.  ...
see: http://www.altamontsrc.org/alt_doc/m30_apwra_monitoring_report_exec_sum_july_08.pdf Look at Table ES-1 in this executive summary. Some questions emerge in...
Regarding number 1 below, I skimmed through several pages on www.altamontsrc.org and found that the src is made up of five members who are appointed by various...
Dear Larissa -- Thanks for your sincere effort to seek answers to my questions. The questions were rhetorical, however, and the answers could never be found...
