Article: Permission for owls to procreate Spring Brook receives government permit, hopes to help re-establish an endangered species.(News)

Article: DuPage preserve gives a hoot about barn owls
Beacon News, The (Aurora, IL);  September 6, 2004 ;     544 words ... ... Spring Brook Nature Center in Itasca and Northeastern ... released 10 juvenile barn owls in county forest ... attached to the barn owls' feathers and ... and Spring Brook Nature Center and a Northeastern ... of the released barn owls will remain in ...

Article: Barn owls may solve rat scourge in UC Berkeley's ...
Oakland Tribune;  October 16, 2008 ;     700+ words ... ... Lisa Owens Viani, founder of Keep Barn Owls in Berkeley, said putting up an ... coordinator at the Shorebird Nature Center. "We've just started to see ... There was also talk of bringing in barn owls. William Rogers, the city's ...

Article: Rats in People's Park spurs UC Berkeley to consider using ...
Oakland Tribune;  October 23, 2008 ;     700+ words ... ... Lisa Owens Viani, founder of Keep Barn Owls in Berkeley, said putting up an ... coordinator at the Shorebird Nature Center. "We've just started to see ... There was also talk of bringing in barn owls. William Rogers, the city's ...

Article: Tailing barn owls, farm country's secret visitors
Lancaster New Era Lancaster, PA;  June 26, 2007 ;     700+ words ... ... Fortunately. Instead, a family of barn owls, one of the rarest - not to mention ... running with it. As their name suggests, barn owls with their heart-shaped, monkey faces ... thereabouts. Prodigious eaters, young barn owls need four to five voles, mice or other ...

Article: Prey use by a pair of barn owls (Tyto alba) in a ...
The Texas Journal of Science;  August 1, 2003 ;     700+ words ... ... Abstract.--Pellets from a pair of barn owls were collected from May 1995 through ... and in coastal prairie likely reflected barn owls searching both coastal prairie and salt ... with wooded or agricultural habitats, barn owls also hunt in adjacent marshes (Glue ...

Article: Decline of barn owls prompts conservation ...
Morning Call (Allentown, PA);  May 2, 2006 ;     700+ words ... ... the days when he regularly encountered barn owls in the Northampton County countryside ... York counties. The alarming decline of barn owls and other grassland species attracted ... nor does it make hooting-type calls. Barn owls measure about 12-18 inches from head ...

Article: BARN OWLS ARRIVE AT NORTH PARK'S LATODAMI CENTER
US Fed News Service, Including US State News;  March 14, 2006 ;     501 words ... ... Parks Department today announced that four new barn owls have arrived at the Latodami Environmental Education ... Program, which works to reestablish populations of barn owls to the region. Barn owls are agriculturally valuable predators. A family ...