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As night falls, a Great Gray Owl sits and turns her head around 180 degrees as she sits in a tree in the hills of Mount Aukum. The Great Gray Owl is one of the most majestic and rare birds in North America. Until recently, it's been found in California almost exclusively around Yosemite, in mountain meadows. Now that's changed -- three pairs are nesting, in of all places, outside Placerville, startling scientists and bird watchers. What's more, they are nesting not in untrammeled wilderness but on a logging company's land. Mount Aukum is a small foothills town south of Placerville, and north of Jackson is were the bird were found. July 7, 2011.

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As night falls, a Great Gray Owl sits and turns her head around 180 degrees as she sits in a tree in the hills of Mount Aukum. The Great Gray Owl is one of the most majestic and rare birds in North America. Until recently, it's been found in California almost exclusively around Yosemite, in mountain meadows. Now that's changed -- three pairs are nesting, in of all places, outside Placerville, startling scientists and bird watchers. What's more, they are nesting not in untrammeled wilderness but on a logging company's land. Mount Aukum is a small foothills town south of Placerville, and north of Jackson is were the bird were found. July 7, 2011.