Posted on 02/20/2022 6:11:38 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
One of Arizona’s tiniest owls may regain federal protections by the end of the year as climate change, habitat loss and invasive species threaten its future.
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, the agency that manages threatened and endangered species, submitted a proposal in December to classify the cactus ferruginous pygmy owl as threatened under the Endangered Species Act, more than a decade after similar protections were revoked.
Climate change is expected to turn most of the bird's habitat hotter and drier and in turn, affect prey availability and vegetation cover that the birds require for nesting, predator avoidance, and thermoregulation.
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How much of our landmass will this unsuccessful runt owl control?
The real estate developers in AZ must have missed their payoff to the democratic party. Owls force development down the hills into the hotter lands. That owl can be spotted anywhere below 5000 - 8000 feet over 3/4 of airzona depending on who you buy for consulting. It follows its pray population and really is abundant just in the palces in AZ to place a house, the high lands with better climate options.
Want to collect some owls, make a good place for rodents, or breed some rodents and drop them off. Dryland Owls outside of their reporduction cycle are extreamly mobile as they evolved in a desert.
The best option for AZ is buy the most remote property you can stand that has a proven well, improve a house, plant all the solar you can write off and sell it as soon as becomes close to one of the new cities, move to Wyoming and do the same thing. That was 20 years in 1990s, it is 20 months today. When they going to figure out baking in the sun without a hat causes death.
Golf causes even more death. Keep working, keep alive.
I’ll take Habitat Change for $100, Alex.
The pygmy owl that sounds ray-ciist to me. We have many similar here that we call burrowing owls. They like our green spaces. I have fun with one of them. Sometimes when I walk by the nest/hole I wave my black T-Shirt. He thinks this is a hawk or other predatory bird. He-she scurries into the hole fast!
Very cute small owls, no matter what they are named
Ttiwwop
Check their numbers.
Audit their survey.
Make SURE the watermellons didnt swap total acreage with suitable habitat acreage .
This is the fraud that was used in my resource area re the spotted owl.
I was on the survey crew.
The wildlife guy boasted to me about it.
I told my bosses.
No one did anything cuz cya.
Check , don’t let then ruin jobs, marriages and lives with a fraud.
One of these landed on our swing-set when I was a small child in the 50’s.
Dang, just when I was getting to,like pygmy owl egg ommelettes
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