great horned owls and the threat to farm poults

[CluckNDoodle]

The owl I have been plagued with tried again last night to go through some netting. This time it didn't make it because I replaced the crappy netting in this pen with some heavy duty netting and it got caught in the netting. Hubby and I got it out and are waiting for the wildlife people to come and get it. It isn't very happy.
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Wooow! Nice catch! It's a beautiful little bugger.

 

[aart]

waiting for the wildlife people to come and get it.

Curious what they say about, and do with, it...and your catching it?

 

[centrarchid]

Curious what they say about, and do with, it...and your catching it?

I think there will be a lot of paperwork needed to relocate.

 

[aart]

I think there will be a lot of paperwork needed to relocate.

Hopefully we'll get the whole story from @cmom

 

[cmom]

They only asked for my name. They had my address and phone number from when I called them. They said they would relocate it far enough away that it won't return. I think since it has broken through the netting before, it could, except I changed the netting. There was still a little netting wound around a leg but they said they would take care of it. It wasn't a happy bird.

 

[centrarchid]

How far will they take it?

 

[centrarchid]

Page 8 in link below. 75 to 100 miles minimum. Biologist may consider relocation is likely to result in deaths of all dependent owl brood for season.


https://www.aphis.usda.gov/wildlife...anagement Technical Series/Hawks-and-Owls.pdf

 

[cmom]

They only told me they would take it far enough where it wouldn't come back. I'm sure they have release sites since that is their business. We have plenty of owls around here. I hear them often in the evenings in the different trees around our house talking to each other and sometimes another one next door which isn't that close talking to the ones next to my house.