ah, conservation

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• ImplyingImplications@lemmy.ca ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Conservationists: Oh boy, here I go killing again!

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  • ryannathans@aussie.zone ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    To be fair that’s a very important part

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    • DragonTypeWyvern@literature.cafe ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Up until people start asking how you tell the endangered owls from the invasive owls while holding two dead owls

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    • melpomenesclevage@lemm.ee ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Yeah. Actual conservationists tend to be pretty good shots.

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  • ScentedEyes@lemmy.tf ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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• SkyezOpen@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  “Conserve this.”

  Gunshot

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• JohnDClay@sh.itjust.works ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Are they an invasive species?

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  • emuspawn@orbiting.observer ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    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.

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    • DragonTypeWyvern@literature.cafe ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Have we considered that that’s their secret to success?

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    • name_NULL111653@pawb.social ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Were they introduced to the west by humans? If this migration is occurring without human intervention this is just evolution doing its thing.

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    • MechanicalJester@lemm.ee ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      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?

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  • thebardingreen@lemmy.starlightkel.xyz ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    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 other species of owl.

    So, yes.

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• samus12345@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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• Windshear@lemmy.ca ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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• steal_your_face@lemmy.ml ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  So there’s barn owls and barred owls? Who is coming up with these names?

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  • newtraditionalists@beehaw.org ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Scientists have a long seemingly treasured history of trolling everything with their naming of stuff. Not a scientist, so I can’t confirm. But from the outside it sure looks like they have a lot of fun with it.

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• Grass@sh.itjust.works ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Something something something. The

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• z00s@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  ITT: the difference between conservationists and “conservationists”

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• Ranger@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Owl is back on the menu boys!

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