Tag: owls and conservation
The International Wildlife Film Festival Goes Virtual!
The virtual event starts this Saturday, April 18th, and runs through Saturday, April 25th. The International Wildlife Film Festival (IWFF) is the longest running wildlife focused film festival in the world! IWFF screened the Wild Lens produced documentary Bluebird Man ...
Pining for the Field: Burrowing Owls of the West
Girl with a lap-full of Burrowing Owls. Now, how does one happen to find oneself in such a delightful predicament? Well, it was 2007 and I had applied to a field position ("bird job" if you wanna use the cool insider ...
EOC 124: The Ecological Importance of High Intensity Forest Fires with Monica Bond
Listen to this episode in iTunes Today’s guest on the show is Monica Bond from the Wild Nature Institute. Monica was one of our first guests on the podcast - she was featured in episode 6 of the show. At ...
The Risks Of Toxicants From Marijuana Cultivation on Pacific Fisher and Spotted Owl Populations
In this lecture Mark Higley, Wildlife Biologist, Hoopa Valley Tribe presents the methods of modeling predictability of poisons used at illegal marijuana grow sites and how they are impacting Pacific fishers and endangered spotted owls. This presentation is from the ...
Marijuana Cultivation and its Impacts on Wildlife, Habitats and the Wildlife Profession
Legalizing and regulating marijuana is, to many, progressive. However, there is another side: illegal marijuana plantations across the state of California are found to be poisoning wildlife populations. Numerous marijuana grow sites are scattered among the dense and remote forests ...
EOC 003: The Reintroduction of Burrowing Owls to British Columbia with Lauren Meads
Episode Summary: In this episode of the Eyes on Conservation podcast we're talking with Lauren Meads. Lauren works with the Burrowing Owl Conservation Society of British Columbia (BOCSBC) where she is the site coordinator for the Okanagan Valley release area ...
The Burrowing Owls of British Columbia
***The following is a post from Lauren Meads, the South Okanagan Site Coordinator for the Burrowing Owl Conservation Society of British Columbia (BOCSBC). In addition to her role with BOCSBC, Lauren is a part of our team of volunteer videographers ...
April Raptor – Great-gray Owl
I don't think I've ever been more excited to see a life-bird than I was last week after seeing my first Great-gray Owl. Standing a whopping 3-feet in height, the tallest owl in North America inhabits the northern boreal forests ...
Week 52 – Snowy Owl
Here we go: The final post of this 52-week project and I am so glad to be in western New York for this one! The number of Snowy Owls I have seen along Lake Ontario in New York has been ...
