The Night Owls

Outside/In

NHPR

Science, Natural Sciences

4.8 • 1.4K Ratings

🗓️ 7 November 2024

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

The federal government wants to kill one owl to save another.

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0:00.0	Mark Higley has some ground rules when he's out in the middle of the night saving owls.
0:06.4	Bring a good pair of hiking boots, a headlamp, spare batteries, and...
0:11.2	Never put one in the chamber until right before you're going to shoot.
0:14.0	Okay.
0:14.4	Always empty it completely right after.
0:17.1	We were on a logging road in the Hoopa Valley Reservation in Northern California.
0:21.6	Mark is the chief biologist here, and he was holding a 12-gauge shotgun with a flashlight fixed to its barrel.
0:28.6	We were looking for an invasive species that is threatening the northern spotted owl.
0:34.6	You see him.
0:36.6	Mark spotted something, high up in a tree.
0:41.3	I'm gonna shoot.
0:43.3	Okay.
0:45.3	He pulled the trigger.
0:47.3	Dry fire.
0:49.3	He forgot to load a shell.
0:51.3	He aimed again.
0:53.3	A ball He aimed again.
1:02.1	A ball of fluff, almost like a teddy bear, fell to the ground.
1:04.6	It was an owl.
1:11.0	Mark does this about three nights a week,
1:13.0	driving around logging roads,
1:16.8	killing one kind of owl to try and save another.
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