[wisb] Re: Fennimore Snowy shot
- From: Alex Stark <thearctictern@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: richter@xxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 30 Nov 2011 21:13:59 -0600
Hey folks,
Before this gets out of hand let me apologize. Nobody knows that this
bird is in fact killed.
I was simply talking to a friend about Snowy Owls and it was brought
up that this bird has not been seen in quite some time. The idea had
been thrown out there that possibly the bird had been shot, but the
idea had also been thrown out there that this bird packed up and moved
to Dodgeville. Long story short, we don't know where this bird is
right now....nobody has been out that way to go look for it. After
all, Grant County may be lacking some birding coverage.
Once again I apologize for any confusion, anger and also a lack of
trust in a fellow birder and ornithologist.
Alex Stark, Prairie du Chien
On Wed, Nov 30, 2011 at 3:04 PM, Richter Museum <richter@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Jesse; most are not in poor shape. The real culprit here is usually
> aspergillosis a common fungus that these northern owls encounter as they move
> south. As the disease progresses the birds become weaker and are unable to
> hunt, hence starve. I suspect most of the birds have been exposed by this
> free flying airborne pathogen, but it only comes into play under stress, such
> as in young birds long emigrations with and little food. Some owls might be
> rescued but survival even with treatment is very limited depending upon how
> advanced the lesions are. It may take weeks for birds to succumb. Recently
> infected birds have the best survival chance.
>
> Tom Erdman
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: wisbirdn-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:wisbirdn-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On
> Behalf Of Jesse Ellis
> Sent: Wednesday, November 30, 2011 1:36 PM
> To: wisbirdn@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [wisb] Fennimore Snowy shot
>
> Hey all-
> I don't have a lot of details, but I received word today (via Alex Stark, who
> cannot post right now) that Dennis Kirshbaum, the DNR warden in the area for
> Fennimore, in Grant Co, found the/a Snowy Owl, shot. Apparently he thought it
> might have been shot to "put it out of it's misery because it wasn't hunting
> and was starving" (quoting Libby Stark, I don't have more detail than that).
> Hopefully Alex will tell us a little more when he can access the net. In the
> meantime, please don't use your gas expecting to find this individual again.
>
> I'm not sure how to handle this as a birding community. My first thought is
> that perhaps we need to alert the press to the potential of an invasion, and
> inform them that regardless of appearances, these birds should not be and do
> not need to be disturbed. Some will make it and some won't. If the lemming
> population is actually great this year (which I believe I heard to be true)
> these birds have moved not because of starvation outright, but because of
> territoriality due to high population, and may be in good shape.
> Some undoubtedly will be in rough shape due to their travels and new hunting
> grounds, but we can't know that all of them are doing poorly.
>
> Any other thoughts on this?
>
> Jesse Ellis
>
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> Jesse Ellis
> Post-doctoral Researcher
> Dept. of Zoology
> University of Wisconsin - Madison
> Madison, Dane Co, WI
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