Re: barn owl troubles

["L. D. Giddings" <seldom74 at xmission dot com>]

Betsy,

when I visited Antelope Island yesterday I stopped at the Visitor's Center and
chatted with ranger for a while. He mentioned that they found one of the Garr
ranch barn owls dead the other day. If this is wide-spread, it seems unlikely
to be attributable to a single source of poisons or toxins, or to a lone act of
malicious mischief. Is it possible that an avian epidemic or cold stress is
responsible? Do you - or any of the rest of you - have any sense of which
cites/counties have been affected? Have any of you seen anything like this
before?

Lu Giddings


Betsy_Beneke@fws.gov wrote:

> Hello Utah birders!
>
> Since we've had all the snow, refuge staff have been finding, or taking
> calls from local residents, about dead or dying barn owls.  We've taken a
> couple to the Ogden Nature Center.
>
> I was just wondering if other folks are hearing about barn owls that are in
> trouble.  I wish we could do something to help them...
>
> Betsy Beneke
> Outdoor Recreation Planner
> Bear River Migratory Bird Refuge
> Box Elder County
>
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