[Mikitivity]

I've always wanted to do more with my Miervatian Burrowing Owl NSWiki article, and finally did some serious revamping of the article:

http://ns.goobergunch.net/wiki/index.php/M...n_Burrowing_Owl

I'm not finished. If you'd like the tiny mountain owls to be native in your nations, all I ask is that they live in your mountain regions (even small pockets are fine).

For the nations where I've assumed they exist, you may remove them. You also may talk about if they are endangered (and why if so) or not. If there are special laws concerning the owls, let me know.

In August I'll start working on Ecological maps for all of the IDU (I'll be buying a new computer then and hopefully will have Illustrator CS2 -- I'm taking a class twice a week to learn graphic design)!

In the article, you can see hints of some of the other ecological articles / species I'll be introducing. I'd like to focus more on natural systems for the next few months ... and of course I want to tie our ecologies together!

[Bears Armed]

OOC: My nation's location within the region hasn't actually been fixed yet, but I've asked for some part of the apparently-unclaimed area to your east if that's still available: If I get that then it would seem to be inside this species' range, and I don't see any reason to object to those owls' presence in B.A. territory...

Umm. *(looks worried)* They don't eat honey-bees, do they?

[Mikitivity]

Bears ArmedJun 20 2006, 10:28 AM OOC: My nation's location within the region hasn't actually been fixed yet, but I've asked for some part of the apparently-unclaimed area to your east if that's still available: If I get that then it would seem to be inside this species' range, and I don't see any reason to object to those owls' presence in B.A. territory...

Umm. *(looks worried)* They don't eat honey-bees, do they? [/quote]
In their native habitat the owls focus more on fireflies (they are more active at night), but if introduced to a non-native habitat, I'd be worried about the bees.

[Stolidia]

I was contacted yesterday by a representative of the Department of Science & Health of the Protectorate of Wailele Island. He asked me to inform the representative of Mikitivity that a small population of Miervatian Burrowing Owls has been observed by an ornithologist in the mountains of eastern Muliwai Province in that country. The Islanders have no idea how the owls got there, but they're relatively certain they're not an indigenous species.

I don't know why the person couldn't just tell you himself, but no matter.

[Enn]

While Miervatian Burrowing Owls are not native to the area now claimed by the Remnants of Enn, there are some living there, possibly released from the Ennish Zoological Park. No-one's worried about them yet, but they may become a problem as the nation grows.