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PHOTO BY COURTESY OF CHICAGO ACADEMY OF SCIENCES 
Long-eared Owl 
long-eared, short-eared and screech owl have ear-tufts, while the barred, 
barn and saw-whet have none. Once in awhile the snowy owl is seen. Mr. 
Bartel saw one at the Arboretum in winter but it cannot be classed as a 
bird of the region as it visits us only in very severe seasons when the food 
supply becomes scarce in its range. 
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Hawks and Owls Vindicated 
(From the St. Louis Post-Dispatch) 
ARE HAWKS and owls harmful to wildlife and poultry or are they friends 
of the farmer and hunter? The question has long been debated, and now 
an actual test in Missouri produces evidence in favor of the big birds. 
Members of the Macon County Conservation Federation, believing that 
quail were being killed by the hawks and owls, staged a two-week drive 
against them last month (January). The campaign, in which the Missouri 
Conservation Commission co-operated, netted 195 hawks and 45 owls. An 
examination of the birds’ stomachs at the Co-operative Wildlife Research 
Unit at the University of Missouri produced the following data: 
Remains of field mice and other small animals were found in 183 
stomachs, bird remains in 18, traces of insects and grass in nine, and 
43 stomachs were empty. Unmistakable signs of quail were found in only 
