Owl recovering from barbed wire injury

911 call leads to rescue of an owl trapped in barbed wire in NC: 'He looked drained, had no energy'

An animal resource officer in Chatham County has quite the story to tell after freeing an own tangled up in barbed wire.

Owl recovering from barbed wire injury

An owl that became tangled in a barbed wire fence in northwestern Chatham County was rescued this week, the Chatham County Sheriff's Office said.

SF's Great Horned Owl Revival Began With a Presidio Restoration

While people fret over fluctuations in San Francisco’s Homo sapiens population, one species has been steadily gaining in the city for two decades: the great horned owl. Dominik Mosur, a local naturalist who leads birding tours, recalls the excitement over the discovery of an owl’s nest in the Presidio. That was back in the early 2000s, when the owl population was scarce. “There wasn’t enough habitat,” says Mosur. Yet around that time the Presidi…