First Nation in B.C. marks 10 years of burrowing owl conservation efforts
A First Nation in B.C. is celebrating a decade of its restoration efforts on Burrowing Owls, an endangered species in the country.

Upper Nicola Band, a Sylix community located in the Nicola Valley within the Thompson-Nicola Regional District, released 11 owls into burrows on the grasslands of ...
https://www.cbc.ca/news/indigenous/first-nation-in-b-c-marks-10-years-of-burrowing-owl-conservation-efforts-9.7175368?cmp=rss

What biologists see from the shores of the drying Great Salt Lake https://www.npr.org/2024/04/13/1244169234/scientists-worry-about-ecological-collapse-at-great-salt-lake

"Researchers here are already detecting sharp declines in #birds populations such as #BurrowingOwls and snowy #plovers. As the lake and its wetlands dry, the #BrineShrimp the birds feed on are dying out... But there's still time to reverse its decline. The last two years has bought some time."

The owls are not what they seem

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