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...
Ah, thanks for the clarification. It is curious how difficult it is for humans to coexist with wildlife, as I am quickly learning. I did hear of some...
Hi Larissa -- First, I would suggest that if you are interested in burrowing owl conservation, you would do some research to get accurate information on what...
How certain can one be of absence on a 60 acre site that has open fields and occupied dairies? I cannot survey on the dairies only from the edge with...
Hi Ryan, I just joined this list group and am very interested in your trapping methods for the BUOW. I have 24 artificial burrows on one large ranch (16,000...
Dear Steve Simmons -- After hearing you say that you are managing and banding and colorbanding burrowing owls in California, I have to ask: Are you authorized...
Hi Steve,  Welcome to the BUOW forum. Nice to hear from fellow banders. The transmitters are from Communications Specialists. www.com-spec.com 800 854...
Hi Stan, Â Your last message stated, "This seems to me to be a possible contradiction to the California Burrowing Owl's protocols for color banding burrowing...
Dear Stan Moore, Thanks for checking. I have been banding with my own Master Personal Banding Permit for the last thirty five years here in California and...
Thanks Steve -- It was great to speak with you by telephone this afternoon. I thought red might be the wrong color for your region according to California...
As a person who has been a conservation activist/agitator for years on the Altamont Pass issue, besides having personal experience in raptor field work in the...
Stan, can you tell me more about this? I have known that birds were being killed by wind turbines and now I just read a study about bats that are getting the...
To whomever posted this -- There is a huge body of literature on the overall subject, but the only known (or even proposed) solution is to put wind turbines in...
No with the netting I mean there is a project on the table that wants to place nets to capture the killed animals to get an accurate number of them before they...
Hello all, In 1997 & 1998 we were putting aluminum plasticine bands on day old wood duck ducklings. These bands were a full size #5 band that had plasticine...
Hi Steve --  Thank you for your fascinating report! I have also received reports of pigeon bands in great horned owls and at least one European Eagle Owl,...
I can't seem to nail down the full email address right now for Steve Simmons, our new burrowing owl man/ barn owl man/ screech owl man/ kestrel man/ wood duck...
Below is a link that shows a photo of the cover of this book. The Northern Hawk Owl appears not to be bothered if the Dow Jones drops a hundred points or a...
see: Â http://www.goldengateaudubon.org/html/speakerclass/speakerseries.htm see: http://www.goldengateaudubon.org/html/speakerclass/speakerseries.htm...
reference link:  http://www.bto.org/notices/ringing_guide/index.htm  I have not seen this new book yet, but the description at the BTO website leads me to...
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