What is a spotted owl?
spotted Owl ( Strix occidentalis ) is a medium -sized North American owl that has become a great dividing symbol, thanks to the fact that it is used as an indicator to assess the health of old growth forests. These owls can be found along the western part of North America from British Colombia to Mexico and were subject to intensive studies between biologists, loggers and environmental activists. Spotted owl is currently classified as an endangered species, which means that it is entitled to a certain protection under the law. These birds are quite easy to identify due to their distinctive appearance and are also very shy and strictly night. Spot Owls are carnivores, feed on a number of small mammals and insects, and have created a unique high -ranking scythe, usually repeated scythes in a short sequence that call each other. They are particularly common in redwoods, although they can also be found in pine, eaters and other conifers. Consigning OWL also require large areas of adjacent habitat,This makes them very vulnerable to logging and other human activities.
Owl, a similar species, is much more adaptable than a spotted owl, and as a result the spotted owl is relocated in many regions, even those that are earmarked for the protection of habitats. Combined pressures of human dwellings, mining of mining and the growth of concealed owl populations led the populations of owls to reduce North America, with these vulnerable owls slowly disappeared from North America for North Americanests.
When it was listed in 1990 as an endangered owl as an endangered species, it attracted great attention between environmental activists and community mining. The spotted OWL has become the main bone of the dispute between the two groups, while activists promoted greater protection for owls, including moratories, and protocols, and protocols, who claimed that intensive regulation hurts logging. Today forToday, tortocy companies are obliged to survey for spotted owls and other endangered species in front of harvest trees, and many of these companies employs biologists of wild animals known as Hooters who monitor and identify owls by imitating their calls and waiting for reacting owls.