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David Johnson

David Johnson

David H. Johnson, founder and director of the Global Owl Project, devoted his career to owl conservation research and habitat preservation across 65 countries.

Jun 23, 2026

9:01
The coyotes were to blame.
9:03
So they started trapping coyotes in a big way, and in the process, badgers were caught as bycatch to that project ef- effort, and it zeroed out the badgers.
9:15
Okay.
9:16
The burrowing owls depended on the badgers for the holes.
9:19
So no badgers, no holes.
9:22
No holes, no burrowing owl nest sites.
9:25
Burrowing owls population crashed.

17 MINS LATER

26:31
So now this resident male burrowing owl thinks some other small weak male is trying to take ownership of his house.

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