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Conservationists: Oh boy, here I go killing again!
To be fair that’s a very important part
Up until people start asking how you tell the endangered owls from the invasive owls while holding two dead owls
Rule one of hunting is to identify your target
At least statistically if you shot a bunch of random owls you’re most likely to have shot all invasive owls…
If there’s one thing I know about the hunting community, it’s how much they love rules
Kill enough until they’re both endangered, then it’ll be easy
That’s thinking with patriotism!
Yeah. Actual conservationists tend to be pretty good shots.
“Conserve this.”
Gunshot
Are they an invasive species?
Unfortunately so. They are an Eastern US species that has been moving ever westward. And they are, in bird law terms, ‘huge dicks’. They’ve been systematically kicking Spotted Owls out of their traditional roosting spots for about a decade now. Spotted Owls are pushovers, so they’ve been losing breeding ground. And barred owls are not just dicks to other birds, they don’t like humans much either.
Have we considered that that’s their secret to success?
Were they introduced to the west by humans? If this migration is occurring without human intervention this is just evolution doing its thing.
I’ve never had a lick of problem with the barred owls. The northern spotted owls look rather similar really. They also interbreed.
I hate this owl murdering nonsense. Why are we funding this?
Because we need to balance what we’ve broken. It’s the responsible thing to do
We didn’t break it. It’s evolution. The barred owls simply out nest out, compete and out survive the northern spotted owls.
First, it was claimed that the northern spotted owls could only live in Old growth forests, but that was proven to be false. I’ve personally seen that it was false because they lived near me.
Then they said that the barred owls and the northern spotted owls did not interbreed, and I felt that that was false because I was pretty sure I came across hybrids. That was then proven to be the case too.
It is illogical to conserve one species by making another endangered. Nothing will change that makes the northern spotted owls better at breeding and surviving than The Barred owls that are similar in size, shape and even coloration.
They only lived east of the Great Plains until we started building cities and planting trees, as they need high, safe perches for nesting and sleeping. When humans created that for them, they expanded westward all the way to California and started competing with (and killing) other species of owl.
So, yes.
So there’s barn owls and barred owls? Who is coming up with these names?
Something something something. The
ITT: the difference between conservationists and “conservationists”
Owl is back on the menu boys!
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