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Petition: Firefighters Rescue Barn Owl From California Wildfire

Petition: Firefighters Rescue Barn Owl From California Wildfire

November 21, 2020February 18, 2021 Supertrooper 12 Comments

As the wildfires around the western part of the United States continue, one group of firefighters went viral on Facebook for helping a barn owl during California’s Silverado Fire. Firefighters found a barn owl in danger from the fires, pulled the owl from the flames, and started helping it. The firefighters brought the owl back […]

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The UK’s barn owls are growing in number – and for once it’s thanks to humans

The UK’s barn owls are growing in number – and for once it’s thanks to humans

June 21, 2020February 18, 2021 Supertrooper 1 Comment

My mum fist-pumped when I told her I had seen a barn owl using a nest box on our farm. She has been trying to coax them in since she moved here 35 years ago. There were signs the owls might be thinking of settling down – we found a pellet (regurgitated fur and bones […]

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Petition: Johns Hopkins University Is Tormenting Owls in a Basement

Petition: Johns Hopkins University Is Tormenting Owls in a Basement

May 11, 2019February 18, 2021 Supertrooper 11 Comments

It looks like something out of a horror movie. Shreesh Mysore, an experimenter at Johns Hopkins University, is holding barn owls captive in his basement laboratory, experimenting on them, and then killing them. Mysore and his team implant electrodes in the birds’ brains, lock them in restraining devices, and force them to see or hear […]

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Purple Heron at Burnham

Purple Heron at Burnham

May 10, 2019December 23, 2019 Brian Anderson Leave a comment

We attempted to find the Baikal Teal at Ouse Washes today but failed despite checking every hide and walking around six miles in the process. We did find a few Garganey and a Black winged Stilt along with Barn Owl, Marsh Harrier, Ruff and a dozen Greenshank. Hopefully the Teal will give us another opportunity. […]

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POLL: Is it justified to kill wild birds to protect the public?

POLL: Is it justified to kill wild birds to protect the public?

February 25, 2019February 18, 2021 Supertrooper 3 Comments

The government’s conservation watchdog has issued licences to destroy 170,000 wild birds, eggs and nests, including rare and declining species such as curlews and swifts, in the past five years. Natural England has given permission to kill birds of more than 70 species, or have their nests and eggs destroyed. These include peregrine falcons, barn […]

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North Norfolk – 7th to 10th February

North Norfolk – 7th to 10th February

February 18, 2019December 23, 2019 Simon Colenutt Leave a comment

Sarah had brought for me, at Christmas, a photography course with David Tipling and so we all headed up to North Norfolk for the weekend. David is a recent convert from Nikon to Olympus and is now an ambassador for Olympus. The main aim for me was to glean some of his knowledge in using […]

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Barn Owls at Christmas

Barn Owls at Christmas

February 3, 2019December 23, 2019 Brian Rafferty 1 Comment

I began the year with an account of a barn owl. I am finishing the year with another account of barn owls. The weather so far in December has been awful with rain on most days and very dull conditions. Hardly conducive to good photography but there have been a couple of days when conditions […]

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Lechuza de campanario (Barn owl) Tyto alba

Lechuza de campanario (Barn owl) Tyto alba

January 29, 2019December 23, 2019 Marcelo Allende Leave a comment

En un nuevo aporte escrito para el Blog compartimos estas fotografías de otra de las hermosas lechuzas que pudimos observar junto al amigo Nicolás Pavese; la Lechuza de campanario, Chuinda en mbyá-guaraní. Espectacular cerrar el año de esta manera, increíble poder ver y fotografiar a esta especie, pensar que hasta comienzos del 2016 solo había […]

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