Owl Mortality on Fences and Utility Lines
Journal
Raptor Research
Volume
9
Issue
3-4 (Fall-Winter)
Year
1975
Pages
55-57
Section
Scientific Papers
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ABSTRACT
McCarthy (Wilson Bull. 85:477478) and Edeburn (Wilson Bull. 85:478) discuss unusual deaths of Great Horned Owls due to collisions with barbed-wire fences. This report describes the wire-caused deaths of three Short-eared Owls (Asio fiammeus) and one Great Horned Owl (Bubo virginianus) in southeastern Washington and adjacent Idaho during the winter of 1973-74.
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