{"id":129915,"date":"2010-01-03T01:31:36","date_gmt":"2010-01-03T06:31:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/planetsave.com\/blog\/2010\/01\/03\/barn-owls-wisconsin-appearance-a-rare-event\/"},"modified":"2010-01-03T01:31:36","modified_gmt":"2010-01-03T06:31:36","slug":"barn-owl%e2%80%99s-wisconsin-appearance-a-rare-event","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/129915","title":{"rendered":"Barn Owl\u2019s Wisconsin Appearance A Rare Event"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/planetsave.com\/files\/2010\/01\/wildlife_barn_owl-small.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-5071\" src=\"http:\/\/go635254.s3.amazonaws.com\/planetsave\/files\/2010\/01\/wildlife_barn_owl-small-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>The Common Barn Owl is not so common in Midwestern states where it&#8217;s considered vulnerable. A recent surprise appearance in Wisconsin highlighted the species&#8217; fragile status in the region.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>A raptor listed as an endangered or threatened species in seven Midwestern states <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ozaukeepress.com\/index.php?option=com_content&#38;view=article&#38;id=400:barn-owl-makes-a-surprise-visit&#38;catid=51:feature-3\" >made a rare appearance<\/a> in Wisconsin late in 2009.\u00a0 The ailing barn owl, which couldn&#8217;t fly or stand when rescued in Mequon, is being rehabilitated in the Pine View Wildlife Rehabilitation Center in Fredonia.<\/p>\n<p>Although once abundant in the Midwest &#8212; and relatively plentiful globally &#8212; the common barn owl has plummeted in population in the seven states since the early 1960s.\u00a0 A combination of habitat loss from farmland development and the past use of toxic pesticides has depressed barn owl numbers in the region.\u00a0 Barn owls are <a href=\"http:\/\/animaldiversity.ummz.umich.edu\/site\/accounts\/information\/Tyto_alba.html\" >more susceptible<\/a> than other owl species to pesticides, although most of the problem chemicals affecting them are no longer in use.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/planetsave.com\/blog\/2010\/01\/03\/barn-owls-wisconsin-appearance-a-rare-event\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read more of this story &#187;<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"feedflare\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/planetsave\/com?a=9y1LZ9A-L9M:z4_3GortJfQ:D7DqB2pKExk\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/planetsave\/com?i=9y1LZ9A-L9M:z4_3GortJfQ:D7DqB2pKExk\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/planetsave\/com?a=9y1LZ9A-L9M:z4_3GortJfQ:yIl2AUoC8zA\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/planetsave\/com?d=yIl2AUoC8zA\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/planetsave\/com?a=9y1LZ9A-L9M:z4_3GortJfQ:V_sGLiPBpWU\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/planetsave\/com?i=9y1LZ9A-L9M:z4_3GortJfQ:V_sGLiPBpWU\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/planetsave\/com?a=9y1LZ9A-L9M:z4_3GortJfQ:gIN9vFwOqvQ\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/planetsave\/com?i=9y1LZ9A-L9M:z4_3GortJfQ:gIN9vFwOqvQ\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a>\n<\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/planetsave\/com\/~4\/9y1LZ9A-L9M\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Common Barn Owl is not so common in Midwestern states where it&#8217;s considered vulnerable. A recent surprise appearance in Wisconsin highlighted the species&#8217; fragile status in the region. A raptor listed as an endangered or threatened species in seven Midwestern states made a rare appearance in Wisconsin late in 2009.\u00a0 The ailing barn owl, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":573,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-129915","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129915","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/573"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=129915"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129915\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=129915"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=129915"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=129915"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}