Talk:Spotted owl

message: The story of the Cherokee legend is inapplicable to this topic because the Cherokee (a Southeast American tribe) would have never had contact with the Northern Spotted Owl because it is restricted to the American Pacific Northwest.  I suggest the complete removal of the legend.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Joshua G. Smith (talk • contribs) 04:28, 3 February 2017 (UTC)
replies: text: Wrong talk page; this relates to Northern spotted owl. However, the point is correct, and that paragraph has no business being in the articel anyway. I have removed it.-- Elmidae (talk · contribs) 16:27, 3 February 2017 (UTC)
thread_title: Faulty Correlation Under 'Relations With Tribes'

message: The Northern Spotted Owl is a subspecies of the Spotted Owl. Seperate entries are appropriate if the content makes the distinctions clear.
:Support. Spotted Owl proper page has very little unique content. Dysmorodrepanis 04:24, 11 November 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Keep; I will add some more (mainly trivial, but nonetheless) info on the species in general in the next 2-3 weeks. Dysmorodrepanis 06:36, 22 December 2006 (UTC)

text: I agree with a Keep - the spotted owl is distinctive in the minds of readers, despite perhaps not being hugely different from the standpoint of science. People became aware of the species via the logging / endangered species issue. Heck, from the standpoint of people's awareness of the owl, you could argue to move the parent topic into *this* article :P  Dxco 02:07, 29 January 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Proposed Merge

message: The Northern Spotted Owl is a distinct subspecies of the Spotted Owl and merits a separate article. See Myrtle Warbler and Audubon's Warbler which are subspecies of the Yellow-rumped Warbler. Also the Northern Spotted Owl is still listed by the as an endangered species by the U. S. Fish and Wildlife Service while some of the other Spotted Owls are not. --Droll 07:08, 28 December 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Removed merge template 

message: The "controversy" section this month has a strong bias against the lumber industry and against opponents of spotted owl protection.  I am not an expert on the matter, so I am not in a position to clean up the section, but I would suggest that someone familiar with the controversy should update the section to reflect the views of old-growth logging proponents in a more balanced manner. —Preceding unsigned comment added by  Poshua (talk • contribs) 23:05 24 January 2007 (UTC)
:I agree with this assessment. I found a section-specific POV template and moved it down to the section. I might try to improve it as I have time. If anyone has sources that can be used, listing them here would be helpful. Burlywood 14:39, 25 January 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: If there are no objections, I propose moving that whole section to Northern Spotted Owl and remove the POV tag. Burlywood 20:10, 5 February 2007 (UTC)

text: I'm glad to see I'm not the only one who's bothered by the pro-owl bias here on Wikipedia. KenFehling (talk) 18:50, 5 December 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Wow, I don`t even know if semi-protection will help here. Sorry, I just looked at the Edit history more closely: pretty nasty. Jack B108 (talk) 05:41, 19 March 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Neutrality 

message: Now redirects here. Notes on the hybrid could be included in this article. Shyamal 06:44, 4 October 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: [[Sparred owl]]

message: I just updated the IUCN3.1 conservation status from VU to NT to match the entry on the Red List. 
      Strix occidentalis (Spotted Owl)
      Status: Near Threatened     ver 3.1
      Pop. trend: decreasing
      Citation: IUCN 2010. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2010.4.
      <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloaded on 10 February 2011.
Are people confusing the USFWS threatened listing for Northern and Mexican subspecies  with IUCN status? Kevin Purcell (talk) 17:30, 10 February 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: Conservation Status

message: The word "typical" and its variations is used 26 times in this article. Just putting that out there. - Sweet Nightmares 16:23, 21 January 2014 (UTC)
replies: text: Typical.  I removed or reworded many of these.  Dger (talk) 17:22, 21 January 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  "Typically" 

message: The sections on habitat are far too detailed. They may, in fact have been copied verbatim from US government sources (which are public domain). The detailed survey of nest elevations throughout the range is appropriate for a specialist publication, but isn't of interest to a general reader, and in fact makes it more difficult for the casual reader to extract useful information from the article. I suggest that these sections be significantly pruned. Pburka (talk) 15:49, 15 June 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Excessive detail 

message: I was also going to note that a lot of material is simply copied verbatim with footnotes from http://www.fs.fed.us/database/feis/animals/bird/stoc/all.html.  Just a pure text dump. Danpetitpas (talk) 17:53, 9 March 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Copied Material 

message: I've just finished an overhaul of the article, which mostly consisted of trying to summarize the massive copy-paste from the US Forest Service site . While that material is all in the public domain and thus perfectly fine to use, this article is not intended to be a mirror of it, nor the definite monograph on spotted owls that covers all minutiae. There's a wealth of information on that site, and anyone wanting to increase coverage in the article of any particular facet will probably have to look no further for sources; but dumping it ALL into the article is not indicated.
Most of that concerned the sections now found under 'Habitat', 'Ecology' and 'Diet'. I've kept individual refs where the main points were traceable to a few such, otherwise I've sourced the summary to the USFS site, which has exhaustive refs for every statement. The 'Conservation' section seems homegrown and I haven't touched it beyond a few copyedits.-- Elmidae 10:28, 26 November 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Massive condensing 

message: I've added some information regarding some new conservation efforts. The study hasn't been published yet but general findings have been reported through a news source. I also added that a study found that barred owls are one of the primary causes of decline in spotted owl populations.
Ctran24 (talk) 00:37, 1 March 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Additions to Conservation