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		Brown Dipper Cinclus pallasii 1820 The Brown Dipper (Cinclus pallasii) is an aquatic Asia.
	www.brainyencyclopedia.com /topics/brown.html (4653 words)

	Broadmining: OWL (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Owl eggs are white and almost spherical, and range in number from a few to a dozen in some owls.
		Owls are traditionally associated with wisdom and with the goddess Athena, although crows, rooks and many other common birds are more intelligent.
		The same is true in Romanian culture, where the howling of an owl predicts the death of somebody living in the neighbourhood, as the howling of the owl is likened to a mourning.
	lowide.com /OWL (512 words)

	Brown Wood Owl -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Brown Wood Owl is a scarce resident bird of dense forests.
		The upperparts are uniformly dark brown, with faint white spotting on the shoulders.
		The facial disc is brown or rufous, edged with white and without concentric barring, and the eyes are dark brown.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/B/Br/Brown_Wood_Owl.htm (187 words)

	close encounters with owls of singapore
		Owls are carnivorous and, like all birds of prey, they have powerful and sharp claws and their grip on victims (mostly rodents) is deadly.
		The Spotted Wood is a large owl that is generally brownish with whitish spots all over the upper parts of its body and, like the Brown Hawk, it also does not have ear-tufts.
		Owls are fascinating birds and searching for them under cover of darkness is an exciting experience, and one that calls for silence, patience and keen hearing skills.
	habitatnews.nus.edu.sg /pub/naturewatch/text/a051a.htm (2510 words)

	Northern Hawk Owl Biology
		The owl is rich dark brown on the backside with large white spots on the outer wings and scapulars and some thin white bars on the tail feathers, the crown thickly spotted.
		The Hawk Owl appears capable of being quite prolific with usual North American clutch sizes of 3 - 9 eggs and 8 - 13 possible in good vole years (clutches of 7 are common).
		Movements: The Hawk Owl is quite dispersed, moves freely through the northern coniferous forests, is essentially nomadic, and quite irruptive depending on weather conditions and prey availability.
	owling.com /N-Hawk_nh.htm (858 words)

	Northern Hawk Owl
		Hobbs is an owl that was injured in the wild.
		Hawk owls can be identified by their long tail and pointed wings, dark feathers along the ear regions and eyes, brown feathers with white spots, and yellow beak and eyes.
		Hawk owls have a circumpolar distribution throughout northern Europe, North America and Canada.
	www.alaskazoo.org /willowcrest/hobbs.htm (529 words)

	Northern Hawk Owl (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Typically, owls are short-necked, large-headed birds of prey, with hooked bills and razor-sharp talons.
		These owls may be seen perched high among the treetops, slowly raising and lowering their tails.
		As with all owls, the primary feathers of their wings are modified to eliminate the noise of airflow, creating virtually silent flight for hunting.
	www.nps.gov /gaar/Expanded/key_values/natural_resources/birds/bird_descriptions/northern_hawk_owl.htm (522 words)

	Northern Hawk Owl: Nature Snapshots from Minnesota DNR: Minnesota DNR
		During its visits, this owl is often seen perched at the very top of a tree or utility pole during the day.
		Hawk owls begin to breed when they are one year old.They make their nest in cavities, in nests abandoned by other birds, or on top of old stumps.
		Hawk owls are found in northern forests and bogs.
	www.dnr.state.mn.us /snapshots/birds/northernhawkowl.html (376 words)

	Resources on the Hawk Owl from academic institutions (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Owls: 67:107 Northern Hawk Owl (Surnia ulula): N Hawk Owls: 8:12 N Saw-Whet Owl, Hawk Owl, and Sandhill Cranes: 18:40 N Hawk Owl in Carlton...
		Hawk Owl at New Brunswick, NJ (DjVu
		Admiralty Islands Hawk Owl, Ninox meeki Rothschild and Hartert 1914.
	mongabay.org /conservation/Hawk_Owl.htm (987 words)

	Northern Hawk Owl -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The Northern Hawk Owl (Surnia ulula) is a medium sized (Nocturnal bird of prey with hawk-like beak and claws and large head with front-facing eyes) owl.
		The term "hawk" refers to its (Diurnal birds of prey having long pointed powerful wings adapted for swift flight) falcon-like wing shape and long tail.
		This is a partially diurnal owl, which hunts (Any of various small mouselike rodents of the family Cricetidae (especially of genus Microtus) having a stout short-tailed body and inconspicuous ears and inhabiting fields or meadows) voles and birds like (Songbirds characteristically having brownish upper plumage with a spotted breast) thrushes.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/N/No/Northern_Hawk_Owl.htm (278 words)

	Academic History (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		His description on the Brown hawk owls’ habitat and general habit was very accurate: this species ‘keeps singly or in pairs which spend the daytime cuddled close together up in the seclusion of a shady branch often thickly smothered with creepers.’ The scene we saw was true to his description.
		The owls were perched closely in a branch, among chunky creepers, in well-shaded area, and they were close to a pond.
		These Brown hawk owls have always been there and for the past twenty years have eluded the eyes of the birdwatchers and naturalists of Chennai.
	www.svce.ac.in /~mcwhale/article.html (2119 words)

	Western Screech Owl -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The Western Screech Owl, Otus kennicottii, is a small (Nocturnal bird of prey with hawk-like beak and claws and large head with front-facing eyes) owl.
		Adults have either brown or dark grey plumage with streaking on the underparts.
		Their breeding habitat is open (Click link for more info and facts about deciduous) deciduous or mixed woods in western (A continent (the third largest) in the western hemisphere connected to South America by the Isthmus of Panama) North America.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/w/we/western_screech_owl.htm (228 words)

	Northern Hawk Owl
		The Northern Hawk Owl is a crow sized owl that acts more like a hawk than an owl.
		This owl is not afraid of humans, and will let you get very close to it.
		Although this owl lives in the far north, it sometimes wanders south during the winter when food is low.
	www.kidwings.com /species/northern%20hawk%20owl/index.htm (243 words)

	Sierra Club Ecomap
		Northern hawk owls are a little smaller than a crow with long rounded tails and striped bellies.
		Hawk owls eat small birds in the winter and mice, rabbits and squirrels in the summer.
		Great horned owls and northern goshawks eat them and their treed habitat is threatened by logging.
	www.sierraclub.ca /bc/programs/education/ecomap/northern_boreal_mountains/1nhowl.html (162 words)

	Minnesota Profile: Northern Hawk Owl (Surnia ulula) - Minnesota Conservation Volunteer: Minnesota DNR
		The northern hawk owl is a bird of birch-coniferous forests and muskeg across subarctic Canada, Alaska, Scandinavia, and Eurasia.
		Most winters a few hawk owls can be found in coniferous forests and tamarack-spruce bogs in St. Louis, Cook, Koochiching, Beltrami, Lake of the Woods, Roseau, and northern Aitkin counties.
		Look for a hawk owl to be sitting high on an exposed snag or treetop at the edge of a clearing or bog, often with its tail cocked.
	www.dnr.state.mn.us /volunteer/janfeb02/profile.html (422 words)

	Northern Hawk Owl Detailed Information - Montana Animal Field Guide
		The vocalization of the Northern Hawk Owl is variable and persistent during the breeding season.
		Reproductive studies of Northern Hawk Owls in other areas of their range have found nesting to be in unlined hollows or cavitys.
		Northern Hawk Owls produces smooth, slightly glossy eggs that are white, infrequently with a hint of yellow, and are blunt elliptical-oval to elongate-oval in shape (Eckert 1974, Baicich and Harrison 1997).
	www.fwp.state.mt.us /fieldguide/detail_ABNSB07010.aspx (1579 words)

	South Andaman 20th February-6th March 2002
		Brown Hawk Owl was heard but not seen and both Andaman and Oriental Scops Owl were seen.
		A good tip when looking for the owls with a torch is to remember that they are often much more close than you think and by bashing through the bush you can easily scare away birds that are right in front of you.
		Large brown seabird seen flying away from the ferry on 5/3 Only poor views were obtained due to the vibrastion of the boat but the jizz was like one of the largest tern species.
	www.princeton.edu /~vivekt/trips/Andaman-02.htm (5621 words)

	Northern Hawk Owl (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The Northern Hawk owl is a medium-sized owl measuring about 14 inches in length with a wingspan of about about 33 inches.
		The young owls leave the nest after 25-35 days but are still protected by their parents, which have been known to feircly attack intruders when protecting their young.
		The diet of the Northern Hawk Owl consists mainly of voles, mice and lemmings but it will also eat birds during the winter months when rodents are harder to find.
	www.owlwatcher974.com /hawkowl.html (157 words)

	Birds of India - STRIGIFORMES - Owls - Owlets - Nightjars - Frogmouths - Strigidae - Caprimulgidae - Tytonidae - Birding (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		(typical owls) have a rounder facial disk, a semicircle on each side.
		Owls have an upright stance, hooked bill, and sharp talons with a reversible outer toe.
		Owls feed mainly on small mammals but also take fish, amphibians, reptiles, and birds.
	www.birding.in /orders/strigiformes.htm (208 words)

	Hawk Owl - Alberta Sustainable Resource Development (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Although a true owl, this bird closely resembles a hawk because of its short, relatively pointed wings, long wedge-shaped tail, and its hawklike flight and perching posture.
		long), the hawk owl is distinguished by a lack of ear tufts, dark brown upper parts with white spotted wings and a speckled and streaked crown and hindneck.
		The hawk owl frequents brushy openings and muskegs of all but the alpine and prairie zones.
	www3.gov.ab.ca /srd/fw/watch/owl_hawk.html (182 words)

	Northern Hawk Owl Multimedia Page (800 X 600)
		The Northern Hawk Owl is a very "high latitude" owl that is found around the world in the northern hemisphere.
		The distinctly Hawk-like or Falcon-like owl is usually seen perched in a high vantage point, tree limb or even telephone pole, scanning for prey.
		This is a very bold, almost tame, owl that seems focused on prey and some times may be approached very close with little obvious fear or concern of people.
	www.owling.com /Northern_Hawk1.htm (317 words)

	Nearctica - Natural History - Birds of Eastern North America - Strigidae - Northern Hawk Owl (Surnia ulula)
		The Boreal Owl is a smaller bird, with a short, stubby tail.
		The eye disks of the Boreal Owl are slightly margined with fl on the outside margins, but the fl is more diffuse.
		The streaking on the breast of the Boreal Owl is vertical, not horizontal.
	www.neartica.com /birds/owls/Sulula.htm (230 words)

	All About Birds
		A bird of boreal forests, the Northern Hawk Owl is distinctive among owls for its morphology and behavior.
		The Northern Hawk Owl can detect prey by sight at a distance of up to 800 meters (half a mile).
		Though it is thought to detect prey primarily by sight, the Northern Hawk Owl can find and seize prey under 30 cm (1 foot) of snow.
	www.birds.cornell.edu /programs/AllAboutBirds/BirdGuide/Northern_Hawk_Owl.html (141 words)

	Hawk Owl
		The song is a warning that a hawk, owl or other predator is perched nearby, and the other chickadees arrive to harass the enemy until it leaves.
		With their preferred meal in short supply, owls such as the great gray, the northern hawk owl and the snowy owl have at least temporarily relocated to the...
		This is especially true of forest dwellers, the northern hawk owl and the great gray owl.
	conservation.mongabay.com /news/Hawk_Owl.htm (560 words)

	Christmas Hawk Owl
		First of all it's very important for you to know that we are one of three nationally threatened birds of prey in Australia.
		One of the others is the Spotted owl and I'm not sure what the other one is. There are only about 1000 of us left and that is very scary to us.
		We resemble our cousins the Boobook owl as we are reddish-brown in color and our breasts are whitish with reddish bars and we have yellow eyes.
	members.tripod.com /myowls/page5k.html (187 words)

	The World of Owls
		Hawk Owl, New Ireland - Ninox variegata (Ninox solomonis)
		Hawk Owl, Northern - Surnia ulula (Strix ulula)
		Scops Owl, White-faced (Northern) - Otus leucotis (Ptilopsis leucotis)
	www.worldofowls.com /namesofowls.htm (194 words)

	Hawk-owl
		Owl like head on a hawk like body; folded wings fall short of its long tail.
		Builds nests of twigs and feathers in evergreen trees and tree hollows, or of a few rotten wood chips in natural and abandoned tree cavities, sometimes in old hawk nests.
		Hawk like habits, a day hunter, often perching in trees watching for prey.
	www.50birds.com /BPHawk-owl.htm (231 words)

	Taliabu Masked-owl (Tyto nigrobrunnea) - BirdLife species factsheet
		Justification This inconspicuous and extremely poorly known forest owl is judged to qualify for Endangered because it has a very small range, and hence presumably a very small population, both of which are undergoing continuing declines on the single island it is known to inhabit.
		The primary factor underlying this trend is extensive logging, a threat set to intensify as most remaining lowland forest on the island is under timber concession.
		Brown Hawk-owl Ninox scutulata is smaller with yellow irides, streaked underparts and barred tail.
	www.birdlife.org /datazone/species?action=SpcHTMDetails.asp&sid=2147&m=0 (688 words)

	Northern Hawk Owl description (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		During the breeding season in March and April, Northern Hawk Owls were never detected during nightly owl surveys in the Preserve but they were heard calling during the morning when passerine surveys were being conducted.
		Within the Preserve, only one Northern Hawk Owl was detected during the Yukon-Charley Rivers National Preserve Bird Inventory (June 1999 and 2000) and it was in the Charley Foothills (CF) ecological unit.
		Most owls breed and call earlier in spring and the inventory surveys were performed in June.
	www.nps.gov /yuch/Expanded/key_resources/birds/species_descriptions/noho_description.htm (642 words)

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