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Resident owl and her baby are ringed

GREENSIDE – A female owl and her owlet, who are living in an owl box on Gleneagles Road in Greenside, were ringed so that they can be easily identified in future.

River Square installs owl boxes to control rodents

River Square Shopping Centre has installed EcoSolutions owl boxes to support urban wildlife and provide a natural way to control rodents without poisons.

Rodenticides Market Worth $900 Million by 2019 - New Report by MarketsandMarkets

The report "Rodenticides Market by Type (Anticoagulants, Non-Anticoagulants, and Others), by End User (Agricultural Field, Warehouses, Pest Control Companies, Urban Centers, and Others) & by Geography - Global Trends & Forecasts to 2019" defines the rodenticides market and segments it into agriculture & farming, pest control companies, urban center segments with analyses and projections of the market size of each of these segments, in terms of value.

"RRVA sets out to beautify Randpark Ridge"

"From tree tags to owl boxes, potholes and security cameras, the Randpark Ridge Village Association (RRVA) has plans to better and beautify its area."

Russia’s bats are free of the virus that causes “Covid-19”

Middle East in 24: ''SARS-CoV-2 has not been found in bats in Russia. We tested samples from about two hundred bats, from Different types, with (RT-BCR) we were looking specifically for viruses very similar to (SARS-Cove-2), but we didn’t find anything.” [Photo from Middle East in 24]

SABC Interview on Township Owl Project

SABC Interview with Jonathan Haw on the Township Owl Project

"Sad sight: Owl dies after getting caught in glue trap"

A tawny owl that was recently found stuck to a glue trap in northern Israel has died after employees of the Safari Zoological Center and Nature and Parks Authority were unable to save it.

Sakata Seed: A Partnership for Sustainable Rodent Control

EcoSolutions facilitated the release of young Barn Owls at Sakata Seed to naturally manage rodent populations.

Sandhurst residents... please welcome 4 Barn Owlets!

Sandton Chronicle: EcoSolutions' visit to Sandhurst was a successful one as they managed to ring barn owls and educate clients.

Saving Species - Barn owl

Saving Species is a monthly look at how growers can help key wildlife species by Peter Thompson, farmland biodiversity adviser at the Game and Wildlife Conservation Trust.

Saving urban owls through the Owl Box Project

DAINFERN – The McCallum family are overjoyed that a family of Spotted Eagle Owls (Bubo africanus) have decided to call their chimney home.

Seasonal variation in home range size of evening bats in an urban environment

''We successfully tracked 30 bats over the 3-year period and found a positive correlation between home range size and temperature.'' Journal of Mammalogy, Ellen M Hall, Victoria J Bennett. Published: 13 October 2021

Sightings of Snowy Owls (Bubo scandiacus) further south this time of year.

"The first reports of Snowy Owls during the week began with a “possible” sighting on the west jetty Nov. 22. Earlier in November there was a sighting in Chatham. There were two on Cape Cod, at the south end of Nauset Beach, on Saturday. One was seen there on Sunday, so perhaps the other drifted across the sound to check out Nantucket."

Philippi residents say there is just no getting rid of the rats terrorising them in their homes. But the City of Cape Town has a plan to introduce owls to solve the problem.

South Africans Deploy Owls to Fight Rat Problem in Townships

By Ed Stoddard JOHANNESBURG, Oct 25 (Reuters) - A young barn owl looks bug-eyed in curiosity as a bird handler readies it for a new life - to be spent hunting the rats that plague South Africa's poor and mostly black urban areas.

South Africans Deploy Owls to Fight Rat Problem in Townships

A young barn owl looks bug-eyed in curiosity as a bird handler readies it for a new life - to be spent hunting the rats that plague South Africa's poor and mostly black urban areas.

Special Achievement Award

International Owl Center, Houston, Minnesota, is hosting the 16th Annual International Festival of Owls. Owlproject.org was nominated last year for the Special Achievement Award.