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  • Baby owl hangs undetected on Kentucky family’s Christmas tree for 4 days before spotted by cleaner

    12/07/2023 1:09:18 PM PST · by DallasBiff · 17 replies
    NY Post ^ | 12/6/23 | David Propper
    Look “whooo” is in the holiday spirit. A baby owl blended into a Kentucky family’s Christmas tree for days before an eagle-eyed carpet cleaner spotted the bird perched on a branch. The feathered guest spent four days inside homeowner Michelle White’s living room after her family lugged back their Christmas tree this month – a yearly tradition.
  • This Barn Owl Baby Just Heard Thunder for the First Time (Video)

    06/28/2023 5:19:44 PM PDT · by Twotone · 20 replies
    Dengz ^ | June 1, 2023 | Duclanh412
    Oh, how delightful! Barn owl babies experiencing new sounds and sensations can be quite a fascinating sight. Thunder can indeed be a significant event for them, as it introduces a loud and booming sound they might not have encountered before. Barn owls, like many birds, have highly sensitive hearing. They rely on their acute auditory abilities to locate prey, navigate their surroundings, and communicate with their fellow owls. Therefore, a sudden and intense sound like thunder can be quite surprising for a young owl. Upon hearing thunder for the first time, a barn owl baby might display various reactions. Some...
  • Actress Gwyneth Paltrow reveals she wasn't prepared for what her daughter's school taught in sex ed

    05/16/2023 8:27:48 AM PDT · by SeekAndFind · 39 replies
    Christian Post ^ | 05/16/2023 | Samantha Kamman
    GWYNETH PALTROW WITH DAUGHTER, APPLE Actress Gwyneth Paltrow admitted during a recent podcast interview that she wasn't prepared for how much her children’s school in Los Angles, California, taught preteens about sex. The Hollywood star and founder of the newsletter Goop, which also sells beauty products and sex toys, said during a May 3 interview with host Alex Cooper on the "Call Her Daddy" podcast that her children’s school taught sex education to sixth graders. The starlet remembered her daughter Apple, now 19, sitting in the kitchen one day with her friend Emily; the color drained from both of their...
  • Loss of timber revenue may affect rural Oregon schools

    03/10/2023 4:10:34 AM PST · by george76 · 20 replies
    KPTV ^ | Mar. 2, 2023 | Anna Katayama
    School leaders in rural northwest Oregon are worried about big budget cuts. The Oregon Department of Forestry is working on a plan to protect habitats for endangered species across 640,000 acres of state forest. The loss of timber revenue will affect local schools. The Jewell School District expects to be the most heavily impacted because it gets almost all of its funding from timber revenue. It could see budget cuts of 40 percent. The Jewell School District has about 150 students and a budget of $5 million. District superintendent Cory Pederson estimates the cuts will bring his annual budget down...
  • DuBois column: Owls, more owls and federal land grabbers

    10/07/2019 12:44:29 PM PDT · by cowpoke · 10 replies
    NM Stockman ^ | 10/7/2019 | Frank DuBois
    Owls, more owls and federal land grabbers Owls In response to a 2013 lawsuit by WildEarth Guardians on behalf of the Mexican spotted owl, a federal judge in Arizona has ordered a halt to timber operations on all New Mexico forests and one forest in Arizona (about 12 million acres). WildEarth Guardians Executive Director John Horning said, “With this decision, the agencies will finally be held accountable for ensuring that all forest management practices help, not hinder, owl recovery.” The attorney for the organization on this case explained that “certain timber projects will be paused in light of the...
  • New York zoo ends attempt to recapture Flaco the owl in Central Park-Officials say they will keep close eye on Eurasian eagle-owl, who has been successful at hunting the city’s plentiful supply of rats

    03/01/2023 7:09:22 AM PST · by SJackson · 33 replies
    Guardian ^ | 2-19-23
    <p>For two weeks, an owl that escaped the Central Park Zoo has eluded capture as legions of fans worry about its ability to survive in New York City.</p><p>Professional dog walker Jim Buck heads uptown early on July 2, 1996, with his charges in tow on New York's Upper East Side. Buck is a pioneer in the field known as urban dog handling and serves as an all-around dog adviser to Manhattan's gentry. (AP Photo/Rick Maiman) Fecal bacteria ‘rampant’ on New York sidewalks, researchers find Read more Would Flaco, a majestic Eurasian eagle-owl, go hungry because he had not developed an ability to hunt while in captivity? The answer was a resounding no: Flaco is feeding on park rats.</p>
  • Federal agency proposes California spotted owl protection

    02/23/2023 5:32:47 AM PST · by Oldeconomybuyer · 32 replies
    The Associated Press ^ | February 23, 2023 | By OLGA R. RODRIGUEZ
    SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Federal wildlife officials on Wednesday announced a proposal to classify one of two dwindling California spotted owl populations as endangered after a lawsuit by conservation groups required the government to reassess a Trump administration decision not to protect the brown and white birds. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service proposed that California spotted owls that have their habitats in coastal and Southern California be protected under the Endangered Species Act. The other California spotted owl population, which lives in Sierra Nevada forests in California and western Nevada, would be classified as threatened, the agency said. The...
  • Judge refuses to block grazing in eastern Oregon pastures

    04/02/2022 4:00:32 AM PDT · by george76 · 29 replies
    KATU 2 ^ | March 31st 2022
    A federal judge this week denied a temporary restraining order sought by environmental groups that would block grazing in six eastern Oregon pastures. The Capital Press reports U.S. District Judge Michael Simon said the plaintiffs haven’t shown that turning cattle out on the pastures will cause irreparable harm to sage grouse or to rangeland research. He said continued grazing isn’t likely to irreparably harm the ability of environmental plaintiffs to enjoy undisturbed sagebrush grassland, since the pastures have long been grazed and are rested on a rotating basis. The case was filed against the U.S. Bureau of Land Management by...
  • AP EXCLUSIVE: Trump owl habitat cuts used ‘faulty’ science

    11/09/2021 6:32:54 AM PST · by Oldeconomybuyer · 24 replies
    The Associated Press ^ | November 9, 2021 | By MATTHEW BROWN and GILLIAN FLACCUS
    PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Political appointees in the Trump administration relied on faulty science to justify stripping habitat protections for the imperiled northern spotted owl, U.S. wildlife officials said Tuesday as they struck down a rule that would have opened millions of acres of forest in Oregon, Washington and California to potential logging. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service reversed a decision made five days before Trump left office to drastically shrink so-called critical habitat for the spotted owl. The small, reclusive bird has been in decline for decades as old-growth forests disappear. The Associated Press obtained details on Tuesday’s...
  • Central Park Accidentally Offed Its Celebrity Owl

    08/09/2021 11:00:07 AM PDT · by SJackson · 21 replies
    Cubed.com ^ | 8-9-21 | Willy Blackmore
    Last October, a barred owl showed up in the Ramble, the woodsy section of Central Park just north of the lake, and crowds of birders gathered at its preferred hemlock tree like it was a hot new bakery. At a time when many in the city turned to birding and the urban outdoors, Barry, as people called the owl, became part celebrity, part mascot — the most recognizable bird in the park since the Hot Duck of 2018. Barred owls aren’t uncommon, even in the city, but unlike the snowy owl that thrilled birders in Central Park for a time...
  • Colombian Woman Killed After Beheading Owl on Video

    12/19/2020 12:08:13 AM PST · by nickcarraway · 14 replies
    New York Post ^ | December 17, 2020 | Jack Hobbs
    A woman who posted a video of herself beheading an owl on social media was reportedly shot and killed Sunday by two assailants outside her home in Colombia. Mileydis Aldana, whom the internet dubbed “Owl Killer” after she posted the gruesome clip, was killed Sunday when a pair of men on motorcycles opened fire outside her home in Corozal. SNIP She was questioned by police in June after they were made aware of a video showing Aldana decapitating a white barn owl, but she was not charged, the outlet reported.
  • ‘I Had to See That Owl’: Central Park’s New Celebrity Bird [NYC ANOTHER OWL!]

    11/19/2020 10:48:16 AM PST · by Red Badger · 56 replies
    NYT ^ | Published Nov. 17, 2020 Updated Nov. 19, 2020, 11:55 a.m. ET | By Lisa M. Collins
    New Yorkers are so obsessed with Barry the barred owl that some are concerned he could be scared away. So far, he seems to like the attention. Barry the Barred Owl is New York City’s bird of the moment.Credit...Dave Sanders for The New York Times ===================================================================== It was late afternoon in the North Woods of Central Park, and the sun was setting fast. Joshua Kristal, a photographer with a penchant for birds, was starting to feel despondent as he searched along the creek, looking for any movement. This was the third time he’d traveled more than an hour from Brooklyn...
  • Tiny owl discovered in Rockefeller Center Christmas tree

    11/19/2020 8:29:16 AM PST · by SJackson · 78 replies
    <p>NEW YORK (AP) — It wasn’t quite a partridge in a pear tree, but a worker helping set up the Rockefeller Center Christmas tree found a holiday surprise — a tiny owl among the massive branches.</p><p>The little bird, now named what else but Rockefeller, was discovered on Monday, dehydrated and hungry, but otherwise unharmed, said Ellen Kalish, director and founder of the Ravensbeard Wildlife Center in Saugerties, New York, where the bird was taken.</p>
  • Firefighters Rescued Owl Tangled in High Voltage Lines in Solvang

    04/29/2020 7:56:37 PM PDT · by nickcarraway · 18 replies
    KEYT ^ | April 29, 2020 | Julia Nguyen
    Owl stuck in power line in SolvangThe Santa Barbara County Fire Department responded to an owl stuck in a high voltage line in Solvang on Tuesday. On Tuesday afternoon, Santa Barbara County Fire assisted PG&E after reports of an owl stuck in their power lines. Firefighters arrived to see an owl tangled in high voltage lines on Mission Drive in Solvang. Firefighters worked with PG&E crews along with Santa Barbara County Animal Control to help safely remove the owl from the lines. The owl was safely removed and taken to the Ojai Raptor Center in Ventura County for treatment.
  • Can Any Democrat Beat Trump? Personality and History Say Maybe

    02/20/2020 7:23:45 AM PST · by Kaslin · 60 replies
    American Thinker.com ^ | February 20, 2019 | Merrick Rosenberg and Richard Ellis
    Ever since Hillary Clinton lost to Donald Trump in the 2016 presidential election, political spectators have been wondering how it happened. She was supposed to win by a landslide. Now Democrats are debating which of their candidates is most "electable." They're afraid to nominate another Hillary Clinton. But no one can agree on why she lost. Was it because of globalization, sexism, populism, or Russian interference? Eighty-four years of electoral history show that Trump's victory was not at all surprising. In fact, it was entirely predictable. In our forthcoming book, Personality Wins: Who Will Take the White House and How...
  • Rescued owl found to be too obese to fly [UK]

    01/30/2020 9:35:14 AM PST · by Red Badger · 63 replies
    UPI ^ | Jan. 29, 2020 / 3:46 PM | By Ben Hooper
    Suffolk Owl Sanctuary Yesterday at 12:00 AM · This soggy little owl was found in a ditch a few weeks ago. Usually in these instances we assume injury of sorts that is preventing the owl from flying - occasionally becoming wet causes them to become grounded too - so you can imagine our surprise that when we examined her, we found her to simply be extremely obese! Upon weighing her, she was a rather chunky 245g (which is roughly a third heaver than a large healthy female little owl) and she was unable to fly effectively due to the fatty...
  • Owl vs. owl: Should humans intervene to save a species?

    10/16/2019 8:56:04 AM PDT · by ProtectOurFreedom · 29 replies
    AP ^ | October 15, 2019 | PHUONG LE
    The federal government has been trying for decades to save the northern spotted owl, a native bird that sparked an intense battle over logging across Washington, Oregon and California decades ago. After the owl was listed as threatened under the Endangered Species Act in 1990, earning it a cover on Time Magazine, federal officials halted logging on millions of acres of old-growth forests on federal lands to protect the bird’s habitat. But the birds’ population continued to decline. Graphic showing the differences between a barred and northern spotted owl. (AP Graphic/Peter Hamlin) Meanwhile, researchers, including Wiens, began documenting another threat...
  • HILLARY Clinton Leaked e-mails

    11/28/2017 1:37:15 PM PST · by elephant · 39 replies
    various ^ | 11/28/2017 | Elephant
    OWL Minerva - This was taken from Wikileaks- Hillary Clinton leaked e-mails. (Owl Minerva is mentioned in the letter below) OWL Minerva is a world wide organization with ties to many world leaders and even the United Nations! Minerva United Nations: http://duckofminerva.com/2013/10/the-united-nations-and-american-public-opinion.html From: Hillary Clinton To: Jake Sullivan Date: 2011-02-26 08:04 Subject: LATEST UNCLASSIFIED U.S. Department of State Case No. F-2014-20439 Doc No. C05791990 Date: 12/31/2015 RELEASE IN PART B5 From: H Sent: Saturday, February 26, 2011 3:04 PM To: 'sullivanjj@state.gov' Subject: Re: Latest Ok--and Minerva agrees. From: Sullivan, Jacob J [mailto:SullivanJJ@state.gov] Sent: Saturday, February 26, 2011 02:44 PM To:...
  • Snowy owl captured in flight over Montreal roads by traffic camera

    01/08/2016 2:01:12 AM PST · by Daffynition · 18 replies
    ABCNews ^ | January 08, 2016 | staff reporter
    Watch out, wildlife photographers ~ a road traffic camera in Canada might be giving you a run for your money. The CCTV camera captured a snowy owl in flight, looking stunning against a white winter background above a Montreal freeway.
  • Dive-bombing owl attacks return to Oregon city

    12/27/2015 12:18:43 PM PST · by JoeProBono · 18 replies
    upi ^ | Dec. 24, 2015 | Ben Hooper
    SALEM, Ore.,- The famous jogger-attacking owl of Salem, Ore., appears to have returned to the town -- or at least inspired a new flock of imitators. The Oregon Water Resources Department said two workers were attacked in separate incidents in different Salem locations Tuesday, the first leaving marks on the man's head and the second knocking a hat off a worker's head. Officials said neither man was seriously injured. The first worker to be attacked, Dwight French, described his injuries as similar to those from "a really violent haircut." "It's the right time of year for the barred owls to...