In a Beijing green space larger than New York’s Central Park, biologist Bao Weidong is scanning the trees, looking for a shy bird that’s increasingly scarce: the long-eared owl. There used to be dozens of them across the city, but they’re vanishing. On the other side of the city, a wildlife rescue center is working to save other raptors that have run afoul of the city’s many perils. Can the raptors of Beijing stage a comeback, in the face of runaway development? Will the people of Beijing make room for raptors? Image Credit: Asio otus, Piet Reens. CC BY-SA read moreDuration: 5:28Published: Wed, 22 Aug 2012 03:35:39 +0000
The birds of Norfolk & Lord Howe Islands and the Australasian South Polar quadrant :London :H.F. & G. Witherby,1928.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/58795186
A sleeping Tawny-bellied Screech Owl is caught in a spotting scope in the Sacha Reserve, eastern Ecuador. Known as Autillo Orejudo, it is native to tropical South America.