rare /out plants&animals edition

>>1009868
https://youtu.be/Sr_SGkqrrdM

>>1009873
saw one for the first time today

>giant stonefly
>woodcock
>rare
wut

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The only turtle in the entire state of Oregon

t. A southerner quite upset at the lack of turtles in PNW

It rarely freezes and rains daily where the fuck are they dammit

>>1010032
Yeah, we're not known for our turtles. There's one near where I live. Is that Delta Ponds in Eugene?

>>1009868
see
>>>/an/2374047

>>1010188
Yes it is. Good guess.

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Any interest in spotted owls?

I'm a student with an interest in digital audio. Currently finishing up a bioacoustic monitoring internship with the national parks service building a model to automate the detection and classification of owl calls-- specifically those of the endangered northern spotted owl.

I've been listening to these goddamn birds for 5 months now and I've gotten pretty familiar with their calls-- and discovered a few that I can't find documented anywhere.

On the off chance anyone knows owls in this thread, does this sound like a barred owl call to you? The screech is classic spotted owl, but the chuckling call isn't documented anywhere I can find. The fact that the two call are co located suggests to me they're both SPOW, but I don't know for sure. I'm a audio guy not a bird guy.
http://vocaroo.com/i/s0ygdAfhHZkq

bonus SPOW 4 note call. Usually used to establish contact-- I hear them call back and forth with this one a lot.
http://vocaroo.com/i/s02IM5PIg7U5

>>1010279
Fuck these little bastards I hope they die out forever so we can start logging again

>>1010282
lul

Hate to break it to you, but they're not going anywhere. Some organizations / agencies are even taking to killing the barred owl to reduce competition.

And moreover, logging never stopped. Practically speaking, there's no publicly held old-growth left and the amount young-growth logging land actually affected by the presence of spotted owls is vanishingly small on a landscape scale. Maybe things are different where you are.

>>1010604
Yeah, half the towns in my state are abandoned because everyone lost their jobs thanks to Mr.Spotted Owl

>>1009873
I have a few of these on my property. I see them almost daily. There were many on my Grandfather's farm. Until today I have never heard them called Woodechs. They are woodcocks (Scolopax minor) as far as I know.

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Rare in a way. Kind of hard to find and usually only appear for a short duration in any given area.

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Rare traditional backpacking hiker with its 80 lbs of tools, circa 1992

>>1010024
>first time i ever seen them

>>1009871

I saw one of these when I was a kid, pointing a flashlight through the screen door at the cottage to see all the moths and stuff that it attracted

They are loud when they fly, you can hear the wings buzzing

Just today I saw an albino crow, it was very foggy and the crow was almost the same colour as the fog. Because of the colours it looked transparent. Honestly the most surreal thing I have ever experienced /out/doors.

>>1010282
Wow rude. Owl did nothing wrong.

>>1010823
The little cocksucker can adapt to smaller fucking trees fuck that dipshit

>>1009871
I've fly-fished for trout in a salmonfly (giant stonefly) hatch...these things are not rare during the right time of year

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Leopard slug. This thing was about 8 inches long. First time seeing one last summer.

>>1010789
I saw a piebald whitetail while turkey hunting last year. It looked awesome. Wish I could have gotten a picture.

>>1010840
You can adapt to smaller trees too

>>1011138
>humans handicapping themselves on purpose in the name of other species

Please. Let them play catch up, we don't need to go where we've already been.

>>1010918
Great job killing a rare and interesting bird. I hope you had a good time.

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>>1011149
>browses /out/
>want to get rid of the outdoors and its contents
How strange.

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>>1009868
Yum! Love me some Woodcock. Cock them with the insides in, then take them out and fry them up with some red wine and spread it on toast.

>>1010279
>Bioacoustic monitoring

Fancy way to say sound guy for birds.

>>1011198
bit brackish there m8

>>1011164
>Rare
You don't get out much.
>Enjoyed
It was delicious, along with the two other woodcock and one grouse harvested that afternoon.

>>1011176
>enjoys /out/
>comprehends that deliberately going against the natural path of things is simply just a hunan bias, and not what earth has predisposed us to

Sorry bud. Your conservation is only for other humans opinions. Earth doesnt care.

>>1011536
I'm not arguing that 'the earth' cares or that there is anyone doing any caring except humans.
I'm saying that you seem to enjoy the outdoors, yet also want more of it gone for logging. Just looks like cognitive dissonance from here, my dude.

>>1011787
It's not dissonance. I grasp that different life will come to different situations.

Merely "changing" the environment simply "changes" the type of life that will inhabit it.

>>1011787
Stem density and biomass are both critical components of a healthy ecosystem. Since Smokey T. Bear was able to get inside the heads of a generation, young forests have been declining. Old growth makes pretty post cards, but limits biodiversity. Timber sales are a valuable and necessary part of healthy forest succession. We tried in the late 1980s to return to "let it burn" but the public didn't have the stomach for it.