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Kinderchick:
I hear you, Elaine. It really is too bad that it has come to this. >:(
Elaine L:
This is so discouraging. If only governments had set aside suitable land years ago, we would not have this situation now. I cannot imagine how we could come to the point where we have to kill one species in the hope that another will survive. I just don't know what to say, except that the politics of greed just never ends.
The Peregrine Chick:
BC shooting one owl species to save another
Dene Moore, The Associated Press
27 Jan 2013, The Metro News
VANCOUVER – The British Columbia government has approved the shooting one species of owl in a last-ditch effort to save their endangered cousins, as the number of northern spotted owls continues to decline decades after they became the mascot of the “War in the Woods” over old-growth logging.
Northern spotted owls are on the brink of extinction in Canada, with only 10 birds remaining in the wild in southwestern B.C., according to some estimates.
The situation is so grave that over the past five years the provincial Forests and Lands Ministry has relocated 73 and authorized the shooting of 39 barred owls, the larger and more aggressive bird encroaching on the spotted owls’ limited habitat.
“Barred owls have invaded all spotted owl habitat,” said Ian Blackburn, the provincial government’s spotted owl recovery co-ordinator.
Relocation or elimination of barred owls is limited to a five-kilometre radius around areas where spotted owls have recently been confirmed, or areas being considered for reintroduction from a captive breeding program.
Read the rest of the story here: http://metronews.ca/news/canada/525988/b-c-shooting-one-owl-species-to-save-another/
photosbydennis:
Possible but not likely an owl during the day and I don't believe they are pole perchers...could have been another raptor ???
sami:
Haven't seen any snowies on my way home from Selkirk for a couple of weeks now, but did see a rather large bird take off from a pole in the general area where I've seen snowies. Couldn't get a good look at it, definitely bigger than a raven or hawk, but not as big as an eagle. All I could really tell was that it was fairly dark in colour. Might it have been a large owl? Do they sit up on hydro poles along highways in open prairie?
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