{"id":2568,"date":"2025-08-27T12:14:47","date_gmt":"2025-08-27T02:14:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wombatforestcare.org.au\/wordpress\/?p=2568"},"modified":"2025-10-18T07:30:45","modified_gmt":"2025-10-17T20:30:45","slug":"barking-owl-surveys","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wombatforestcare.org.au\/index.php\/barking-owl-surveys\/","title":{"rendered":"Barking Owl Surveys"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4 style=\"text-align: center;\">Barking Owls (<em>Ninox connivens<\/em>) inhabit open woodland forest habitats where forests adjoin farmlands.<\/h4>\n<div id=\"attachment_2569\" style=\"width: 760px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2569\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2569\" src=\"https:\/\/wombatforestcare.org.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/The-Barking-Owl-family-750x500.jpg\" alt=\"The Barking Owl family\" width=\"750\" height=\"500\"><p id=\"caption-attachment-2569\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Barking Owl family<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Wombat Forestcare member, Trevor Speirs located a pair of Barking Owls in the northern section of the Wombat Forest abutting farmland. He has established the location of a breeding&nbsp;hollow in a large Candlebark (<i>Eucalyptus rubida<\/i>) on&nbsp;a creek bank.<u><\/u><u><\/u><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_2570\" style=\"width: 760px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2570\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2570\" src=\"https:\/\/wombatforestcare.org.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/Male-and-female-Barking-Owls-750x500.jpg\" alt=\"Male and female Barking Owls\" width=\"750\" height=\"500\"><p id=\"caption-attachment-2570\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Male and female Barking Owls<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Barking Owls are listed as critically endangered under the FFG Act and it is estimated that there are only about 50 breeding pairs left in Victoria.&nbsp;<u><\/u><u><\/u><\/p>\n<h4>More Information<\/h4>\n<div id=\"attachment_2578\" style=\"width: 210px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wombatforestcare.org.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/WombatForestcareNewsletter53_September_20.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2578\" class=\" wp-image-2578\" src=\"https:\/\/wombatforestcare.org.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/WombatForestcare-Newsletter-53-September-2020-511x750.jpg\" alt=\"Wombat Forestcare Newsletter 53 September 2020\" width=\"200\" height=\"294\"><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-2578\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">DOWNLOAD<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_2574\" style=\"width: 210px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wombatforestcare.org.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/WombatForestcareNewsletter54_December_20.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2574\" class=\" wp-image-2574\" src=\"https:\/\/wombatforestcare.org.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/Wombat-Forestcare-Newsletter-54-December-2020-511x750.jpg\" alt=\"Wombat Forestcare Newsletter 54 December 2020\" width=\"200\" height=\"294\"><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-2574\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">DOWNLOAD<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Barking Owls (Ninox connivens) inhabit open woodland forest habitats where forests adjoin farmlands. &nbsp; Wombat Forestcare member, Trevor Speirs located a pair of Barking Owls in the northern section of the Wombat Forest abutting farmland. He has established the location of a breeding&nbsp;hollow in a large Candlebark (Eucalyptus rubida) on&nbsp;a creek bank. &nbsp; &nbsp; Barking [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2581,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2568","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-surveys-projects"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wombatforestcare.org.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2568","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wombatforestcare.org.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wombatforestcare.org.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wombatforestcare.org.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wombatforestcare.org.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2568"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/wombatforestcare.org.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2568\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4115,"href":"https:\/\/wombatforestcare.org.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2568\/revisions\/4115"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wombatforestcare.org.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2581"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wombatforestcare.org.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2568"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wombatforestcare.org.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2568"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wombatforestcare.org.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2568"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}