Rare NYC barn-owl nest destroyed by construction workers despite stop-work order, enraging public

Source: New York Post

This is fowl. A barn-owl nest in Manhattan — a sight so rare that it was the first ever recorded in the borough outside Central Park — was ripped apart by heartless hardhats this week, enraging the local birding community and sparking a state probe. “I felt like someone stuck a knife in my gut and twisted it,” said Laura Lincks, a NYC Bird Alliance volunteer, to The Post on Friday.