Burrowing Owls Are Losing Habitat photo by Larry Jordan
The Panoche Valley is an Audubon Important Bird Area (IBA) hosting significant populations of Burrowing Owl, Grasshopper Sparrow, Short-eared Owl, Mountain Plover, and Tricolored Blackbird, among many others. In addition the Panoche Valley is home to U.S. Fish and Wildlife Endangered Species such as the San Joaquin kit fox, Giant Kangaroo Rat and Blunt-nosed Leopard Lizard.
I am a total advocate of clean energy and progress on wind, solar and wave energy but this is definitely NOT the place to do it. Read some of the reasons at the Saving Panoche Valley website, the Center for Biological Diversity and Audubon California Blog. You may also want to read about the company ready to do the construction with foreign money here.
Please take the time to research this and sign the petition against this project at the Save Panoche Valley website. It only takes a few minutes. If you really want to make a difference, write or call you elected officials. It’s important to do this before November 10th when the next Board of Supervisors meet in San Benito. And please, tell all your friends. We can’t afford to lose any more Burrowing Owl habitat!
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Your absolutely right Larry, we can’t afford to lose any more wildlife full stop. Enough is enough.
You’re also spot on with your assessment of Little Owl – Athene noctua, a close relative of Burrowing Owl. Liitle Owls sometimes use rabbit burrows for nesting, as well as trees and buildings.
Oh no…wherever you turn, another habitat is going down. I’ll check out the links…
Thanks for posting about this Larry. It sounds like the Panoche Valley should definitely be preserved.
Who could say no to a cute face like that!
Hi Larry,
I update the ‘Save Panoche Valley’ website and want to thank you so much for blogging about this. We’ve received tremendous support, thus far, but continue to need more. Your blog and website are great sources of information. Thanks! Christie