B.C. spotted owl breeders hoping for new chicks as fertile eggs ready to hatch GlobeBC
Researchers at British Columbia’s Northern Spotted Owl Breeding Program centre in Langley say their fingers are crossed this spring as they delicately tend to at least one fertile egg, due to hatch within days.
When that time comes, she said they plan to release their first owls in the Bridge River-Seton watershed area near Lillooet. Once the egg hatches, the breeders feed and monitor the chick for at least 10 days before placing it back into the nest, where the owl continues parenting as if nothing unusual has occurred, she said.
If all goes well, the centre plans to set up a camera and live stream the owl chick and its parents in the next several weeks.
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