Other websites and groups (eBird, Facebook groups, etc) have been quite careful about putting the exact location of many owl species publically accessible due to the threat imposed by humans. However, I have noticed that iNat has many species typically with censored locations set as “open” for geopr…

i think the issue with owls or some other birds is disclosing where they’re nesting or roosting (not necessarily just that they have been sighted somewhere), right? if so, it might be nice to have some sort of flag or annotation that can automatically trigger obscuration based on nesting, etc. in th…

eBird doesn’t obscure Snowy Owl, and only obscures Long-eared Owl in New York and Wisconsin. Their sensitive species page states that Long-eared Owls are vulnerable to human disturbance at daytime roosts in some areas of the northeastern US, but that this is not an issue in the western US. I don’t s…

Obscuring locations of Owl species

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cmcheatle January 29, 2020, 2:51am 4

There is a secondary issue of baiting for photography which endangers the animals both in terms of reliance on humans for food and bringing them closer to roadsides etc. It is not just nest disturbance that is the issue.

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Obscuring locations of Owl species

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