Sorry, I should have been clearer. My, admittedly anecdotal, observation covers several years. It's not something I was keeping active track of, but an accumulation of a sense over more than the recent few months.
Rich On Wed, Apr 15, 2020 at 10:40 AM Larry Trachtenberg <[email protected]> wrote: > Why not just fewer drivers/cars out and about. There sure are a lot less > cars on the road downstate. Cannot speak for where you are, but if so, the > odds are fewer owls would be road-killed — so may not portend any decline. > > L. Trachtenberg > Ossining > > Sent from my iPhone > > On Apr 15, 2020, at 10:24 AM, Richard Guthrie <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > > *-CAUTION: EXTERNAL EMAIL* > > > > It occurred to me while driving home in upstate, New York - I've been > seeing fewer road-kill E. Screech Owls lately. > > It used to be a fairly regular, albeit unfortunate, occurrence to see a > dead Screech Owl alongside the road. I would often stop to check the color > morph and to see if any were banded, or if any were salvageable for > science/education. > > It's a crude census method - the more animals, the more road-kills. You > see that in the boon years of squirrels, skunks, and other critters. And > we saw that a few years ago with the winter incursion of Barred Owls - a > spike in the number of road-kill Barred Owls throughout the northeast USA. > > Nowadays, I hardly see any E. Screech Owls alongside the road. I should be > glad about that. But does it indicate a more ominous note? > > Owls are hard enough to census as it is. But could my anecdotal > observation of fewer road-kills indicate fewer E. Screech Owls out there? > > Rich Guthrie > > New Baltimore, > > The Greene County, NY > > > -- > Richard Guthrie > > -- > *NYSbirds-L List Info:* > Welcome and Basics [northeastbirding.com] > <https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__www.northeastbirding.com_NYSbirdsWELCOME.htm&d=DwMFaQ&c=dpn1WjMMQGUYKOlM1k1w3OIaMfTHNTwPoUrrILOsxvs&r=NwFWAUOlLbz1fEv1wZE8gwFOElNPUvOXd2Pih8klMD8&m=pO3a0ayEQfPbOiaJnlOflfO9VPwlTRD0bZB7FlYQUMA&s=XBY542rqv3Dr2HaIn5cimPvdwAO5GxYySfs0CMWTuWE&e=> > Rules and Information [northeastbirding.com] > <https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__www.northeastbirding.com_NYSbirdsRULES.htm&d=DwMFaQ&c=dpn1WjMMQGUYKOlM1k1w3OIaMfTHNTwPoUrrILOsxvs&r=NwFWAUOlLbz1fEv1wZE8gwFOElNPUvOXd2Pih8klMD8&m=pO3a0ayEQfPbOiaJnlOflfO9VPwlTRD0bZB7FlYQUMA&s=T9EXMOwyCK3MZvXXhfaV5SsP2Cc4b6YjVWhItJFtp30&e=> > Subscribe, Configuration and Leave [northeastbirding.com] > <https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__www.northeastbirding.com_NYSbirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm&d=DwMFaQ&c=dpn1WjMMQGUYKOlM1k1w3OIaMfTHNTwPoUrrILOsxvs&r=NwFWAUOlLbz1fEv1wZE8gwFOElNPUvOXd2Pih8klMD8&m=pO3a0ayEQfPbOiaJnlOflfO9VPwlTRD0bZB7FlYQUMA&s=ZtOR0c79uOsFyMGM--mQAsv6GNOh-sbYsiec7bagII0&e=> > *Archives:* > The Mail Archive [mail-archive.com] > <https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__www.mail-2Darchive.com_nysbirds-2Dl-40cornell.edu_maillist.html&d=DwMFaQ&c=dpn1WjMMQGUYKOlM1k1w3OIaMfTHNTwPoUrrILOsxvs&r=NwFWAUOlLbz1fEv1wZE8gwFOElNPUvOXd2Pih8klMD8&m=pO3a0ayEQfPbOiaJnlOflfO9VPwlTRD0bZB7FlYQUMA&s=M8zUFK7G2GfrquvENk_e1MMDkB0N6h4RfRpyPAEBe88&e=> > Surfbirds [surfbirds.com] > <https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__www.surfbirds.com_birdingmail_Group_NYSBirds-2DL&d=DwMFaQ&c=dpn1WjMMQGUYKOlM1k1w3OIaMfTHNTwPoUrrILOsxvs&r=NwFWAUOlLbz1fEv1wZE8gwFOElNPUvOXd2Pih8klMD8&m=pO3a0ayEQfPbOiaJnlOflfO9VPwlTRD0bZB7FlYQUMA&s=yM9vWOG7_xFn4XNJu6t5svmGr1zmtmMtPTL4XmtR1C0&e=> > ABA [birding.aba.org] > <https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__birding.aba.org_maillist_NY01&d=DwMFaQ&c=dpn1WjMMQGUYKOlM1k1w3OIaMfTHNTwPoUrrILOsxvs&r=NwFWAUOlLbz1fEv1wZE8gwFOElNPUvOXd2Pih8klMD8&m=pO3a0ayEQfPbOiaJnlOflfO9VPwlTRD0bZB7FlYQUMA&s=2zPUn74fhSHg-3-E49OnJNNgvNUytz30cgGwSugCZ8Q&e=> > *Please submit your observations to **eBird* [ebird.org] > <https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__ebird.org_content_ebird_&d=DwMFaQ&c=dpn1WjMMQGUYKOlM1k1w3OIaMfTHNTwPoUrrILOsxvs&r=NwFWAUOlLbz1fEv1wZE8gwFOElNPUvOXd2Pih8klMD8&m=pO3a0ayEQfPbOiaJnlOflfO9VPwlTRD0bZB7FlYQUMA&s=_c5JWKrE1IVhGh968kR238794MR-wdnzFW22DRAQp6g&e=> > *!* > -- > > -- Richard Guthrie -- NYSbirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsWELCOME.htm http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsRULES.htm http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/maillist.html 2) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/NYSBirds-L 3) http://birding.aba.org/maillist/NY01 Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
