As one who birds Riverbend and is involved with the current breeding atlas
there, I cringe when reading reports of roosting owls on any public
list serve, facebook etc. I thought there was a policy here, perhaps
unwritten. But common
practice is to let these go unreported. Reference ebird link below.
There has been issues with this in the past and particularly with a Screech
Owl.
http://help.ebird.org/customer/portal/articles/1006789-guidelines-for-reporting-sensitive-species
David Young
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