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submitted 7 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 21 points 7 months ago (11 children)

Are they an invasive species?

[–] [email protected] 56 points 7 months ago (9 children)

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.

[+] [email protected] -6 points 7 months ago (2 children)

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?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago

Conservation, I'd guess. Northern spotted owl seems to be threatened species.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northern_spotted_owl#Influence_of_barred_owl_invasion

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Because we need to balance what we've broken. It's the responsible thing to do

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago

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.

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