Spotted owl

At the world’s first breeding centre in Langley, B.C., spotted owls are hatched in incubators, given around the clock medical care and hand fed euthanized rodents in a last-ditch effort to save the species from Canadian extinction. All the while scientists warn that the province has yet to recognize the endangered raptor as a symbol of our escalating failure to protect old-growth forests

Federally threatened Northern Spotted Owls are vital indicators of forest health. The San Francisco Bay Area Inventory and Monitoring Program has been monitoring Northern Spotted Owls since 1999.

You won’t meet a Northern Spotted Owl in this story. The first reason is that, by the time I drive west from Sutherlin, Oregon, with Janice Reid one sunny N ...

Because it requires old-growth forest, this owl has been at the center of fierce controversy between conservationists and the logging industry in the Pacific Northwest. The owl itself seems anything...

Next week at our Teacher’s Workshop, Renee O’Neill will be presenting a new set of activities about owls, owl pellets, ecosystems, and food webs for use in at the elementary level. We a…

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Date 4/2/13 Selangor