Subject: [Tweeters] Burrowing owls in urban areas
Date: Mar 19 13:04:29 2010
From: Jim Greaves - lbviman at blackfoot.net


Informative article in most recent issue of Wilson Journal of
Ornithology (formerly Wilson Bulletin), about BUOW in urban areas
[not online yet], with mixed differences (success higher in
grasslands, but more young per successful nest in urban):
"Reproductive success of Burrowing Owls in urban and grassland
habitats in southern New Mexico", Berardelli et al., Vol.122(1):51-59
[March 2010]

Also, there were two captures of "owls invading buildings" in Goleta
CA in the late 1990's when an area in which one or more wintered was
converted to a manicured park and nearby shopping center - two were
rescued inside stores, kept for a few days to ensure health, then
released [one banded, never seen again] - Jim Greaves

>Message: 11
>Date: Thu, 18 Mar 2010 18:35:13 -0700
>From: Paul Webster <paul.webster at comcast.net>
>Subject: [Tweeters] Burrowing Owl in Renton plus South King County
>Hi Tweets,
>At Seattle Audubon today Barbara fielded a call from a US Postal Service
>employee in Renton who reported a small owl in a tree adjacent to the Post
>Office on Williams Street, just off Third Avenue. Barbara and I drove down
>there and found a Burrowing Owl in the tree. The bird has been there for two
>days, and didn't appear stressed or injured, just sleepy, though it watched
>us as we watched it for several minutes. We told the postal workers what
>they had been looking at, and thanked them for reporting it. This bird is
>surely a migrant and will probably leave soon.
>Paul and Barbara Webster
>Seattle
>paul.webster AT comcast.net


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