Northern spotted owl

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 ...

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.

Northern spotted owl portrait. Photo: Isabelle Edwards Photography.

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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...

An battle between environmentalists and loggers left much of the owl's habitat protected. Now the spotted owl faces a new threat

Northern Spotted Owl

An endangered wild northern spotted owl perches in a tree in an old growth section of forest on Bureau of Land Management property near Roseburg, Ore., on Monday, July 12, 2010. The owl, its mate, and young are being monitored by federal biologists from the BLM. The population of endangered northern spotted owls continues to decline due to habitat loss and other factors. According to Defenders of Wildlife there are fewer than 100 pairs of northern spotted owls in British Columbia, Canada…

The barred owl (Strix varia), also known as northern barred owl or hoot owl, is a true owl native to eastern North America. Barred owls are partly responsible for the recent decline of the northern spotted owl/ El cárabo norteamericano es una especie de ave estrigiforme de la familia Strigidae oriunda de Norteamérica. El cárabo norteamericano puede ser en parte responsable de la reciente disminución de la población de la lechuza moteada del norte.

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A photographic journey into the old growth forests that shelter the norther spotted owl.

Our first night in the House in Mill Valley, we took an evening walk around the neighbourhood and stumbled across this owl.

In the northern forest, a lucky observer may spot this long-tailed Northern Hawk Owl perched upright at the top of a spruce.

“To summarize the summary of the summary: people are a problem.”― Douglas Adams The Barred Owl is a highly adaptable species of owl endemic to eastern North America. Their range began to expand beyond the Mississippi river to the western coast of the US around the turn of the 20th century. Because the Barred Owl has a broad diet and can adapt to a variety of habitats, the species has inadvertently pushed birds with more specialized diet and habitat requirements, like the Northern Spotted…

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Great Horned Owls are highly adaptive and are able to live in nearly every North American habitat and occupy many types of nests including raptor nests, abandoned buildings, cavities in trees and natural platforms and cavities, including this cliff-face cave.