'Boost'

I took the liberty of translating 'boost' to 'steal'.

Barred owls started moving into the Pacific Northwest about 20 years ago. They're closely related to Spotted owls, but much bolder.

There have been plenty of reports of them stealing hats. Mostly from trail runners, but sometimes from people walking down the street.

Purported reasons for this behavior:
1) They're stealing them for nesting material
2) They're confusing them with small mammals and catching them to eat
3) They see the people as threats and are trying to chase them away from their nests

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💁🏻‍♀️ NEW: When this great horned #owl was rescued from a cement mixer, the concrete left its #wings and tail #feathers damaged and unusable. 🦉

To get this apex #predator back into the wild, the rehabilitation team performed an ancient art of feather-mending called #imping. 🪶

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Posted on X by giveashitnature

"If you're worried about ticks, put up an owl box.

The animal driving most Lyme disease in the eastern US is the white-footed mouse. Ticks that feed on them are far more likely to come away infected than ticks that feed on other animals. The bigger the local mouse population, the worse the next year's tick year.

A single barred owl pair raising chicks can take hundreds of rodents in a breeding season. Owls also don't carry #Lyme. The bacterium can't survive their digestive tract, so an owl that eats an infected mouse is a dead end for the disease.

Researchers at the Cary Institute, the leading lab on Lyme ecology have clearly stated: "Landscapes that support predators have reduced Lyme disease risk."

If you have woods or fields nearby, a properly sized barn owl or screech owl box is one of the most useful single things you can do for tick exposure at the landscape scale. Match the box to the owl that lives near you.

The mouse is the problem, owls are the solution."

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That moment when you realize you may have been climbing up the wrong tree.

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