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Big fight for a little bird: Pygmy-owl gets threatened species status
Sydney Carruth Cronkite News//July 21, 2023//[read_meter]
The ferruginous cactus pygmy-owl is relatively rare in the United States, but the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service ruled this week that the 6- to 7-inch birds are not endangered.(Photo by Tom Gatz/U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service)
Big fight for a little bird: Pygmy-owl gets threatened species status
Sydney Carruth Cronkite News//July 21, 2023//[read_meter]
Federal officials this week granted threatened species status to the cactus ferruginous pygmy-owl, capping 17 years of “litigation and controversy” from advocates fighting to win protection for the 6-inch raptor....
