It sounds like a set-up for an ecological horror film – to save one species of owl, US wildlife officials want to shoot down half a million of its cousins. The federal government’s latest proposal to save the endangered spotted owls has raised complicated questions about the ethics of killing one species to save another, […]
Tag: Spotted Owl
Plan to shoot thousands of West Coast owls ignites protest
A federal government plan for hunters to kill thousands of invasive owls to protect the rapidly declining northern spotted owl has ruffled the feathers of dozens of animal advocacy groups. On March 25, a coalition of 75 animal rights and wildlife protection organizations sent a letter to U.S. Interior Secretary Deb Haaland asking her to […]
US government plans to unleash ‘hunters’ to KILL half a million owls in three US states to save its endangered cousin
At least 500,0000 invasive barred owls‘ lives are at stake for encroaching on the endangered California spotted owl‘s territory. The US Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) plans to unleash ‘hunters’ in California, Oregon and Washington to kill about half a million nocturnal birds that are native to the eastern US. Under the proposal, hunters would […]
Petition: Help Save 500,000 Owls from Being Culled
The U.S. government is proposing a plan to shoot 500,000 barred owls dead as part of a massive cull in the Pacific Northwest. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is suggesting this horrible cull in order to restore balance between barred owls and northern spotted owls in Washington, Oregon, and California. In order to carry […]
Petition: Help Save Half a Million Barred Owls from Being Massacred
The U.S. government is proposing a plan to shoot 500,000 barred owls dead as part of a massive cull in the Pacific Northwest. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is suggesting this horrible cull in order to restore balance between barred owls and northern spotted owls in Washington, Oregon, and California. In order to carry […]
Should we give a Hoot about the mass killing of Barred Owls?
The Barred Owl‘s hooting call, “Who cooks for you? Who cooks for you all?” is a classic sound of old forests and treed swamps according to online source allaboutbirds.org. Read More: Barred Owl Identification, All About Birds, Cornell Lab of Ornithology All about birds is managed by Cornell lab of Ornithology, whose mission is to […]
Andaman Islands and Western Ghats
30th November – Today we had a lie-in and were up at 05:45, packed our bags and headed to Port Blair Airport for our flight to Chenai landing at 10:45. We then had a 2.5 hour stop-over in Chennai before our 13:30 flight to Coimbatore. We landed in Coimbatore, tamil Nadu at 14:45 gathered our […]
Creative twist
This post is about colour. I am in between wildlife trips so I thought it would be interesting to play around with the colour in some of my wildlife images. Rather than change the colour of the subject, I wanted to see what effect it would create if I removed the background colour. Presumably, it […]