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...
For anyone interested on the Altamont Pass Discuss or other venues --  I was contacted recently by Drew Annis, who is a PhD student in the anthropology...
Dear all --  I just noticed a power point presentation by Wally Erickson of West, Inc to some wind organization in Washington State, it appeared. There...
Mr Moore, Why are you so mean? Were you the school bully? All your criticisms of people trying their best at burrowing owl conservation and science (no matter...
Dear Catherine --  I thank you for your opinion.  And I beg to differ on the grounds that it is NOT rude but essential to uncover bad science, bad faith...
We;ve heard what feel-gooders think about rudeness as relates to burrowing owls. On the other hand, I would say that California's burrowing owls themselves...
I would like to make another point -- it is rude and insulting to be called "mean" and a "bully". I have fought bullies my whole life, from the time I was in...
Hello all, As moderator of this site, I just wanted to remind everyone that I set up this site to discuss burrowing owl issues or post relevant articles or...
Dear all, Helen Trefry, of the Canadian Wildlife Service, recently contacted my good friend Tracy L. Fleming with a query regarding some very unusual ...
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