The Birders Report

Burrowing Owl Installation Volunteers photos by Larry Jordan
Ten local birders and Burrowing Owl enthusiasts managed to construct eight artificial burrows in Chico, California on Saturday.  The weather held as we installed two groups of four burrows each in the heavy wet soil of a location where the habitat will be conserved in perpetuity.
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Kenn Kaufman’s Field Guide to Birds of North America, one of the best and easiest field guides to use, sells on my website for over $19.  But guess what?  You can win this guide, along with his other four guide books, if you belong to the 10000 Birds Conservation Club!
Now, you don’t have to be [...]

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Burrowing Owl photo by Larry Jordan
If you are concerned about the conservation of bird species in the world and more specifically Burrowing Owls in California please download the Guidance for Burrowing Owl Conservation and read this document.  It has been sitting on a desk at the California Department of Fish and Game for at least [...]

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Burrowing Owl photo by Larry Jordan
The 38th Symposium of the California Burrowing Owl Consortium will meet this Saturday, February 6th at 9 a.m. in Livermore. This event is co-hosted by the Alameda Creek Alliance and Ohlone Audubon Society of Alameda County.  You can get the agenda, as well as directions and all pertinent information here.
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The Burrowing Owl Community Is Watching photo by Larry Jordan
Scott Artis of JournOwl has uncovered a cover-up at California Department of Fish and Game (CDFG) involving the suppression of a report that suggests that their current policy relating to Burrowing Owls amounts to “take.”  ” Take” is a euphemism for “killing” in conservation terms.  Basically [...]

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