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	Indian Scops Owl - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Indian Scops Owl, Otus bakkamoena, is an owl which is a resident breeder in south Asia from eastern Arabia through India, except the far north, and Sri Lanka east to Indonesia.
		The Indian Scops Owl is a small (23-25cm) owl, although it is the largest of the scops owls.
		This species is very similar to the slightly larger partially migratory Collared Scops Owl Otus lettia, which is sometimes considered to be a race of Indian Scops Owl, and which winters within the breeding range of the latter form.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Indian_Scops_Owl (294 words)

	MSN Encarta - Owl
		Owls must turn their entire heads to look sideways, facilitated by relatively long and flexible necks that permit the head to be rotated through 270 degrees.
		Owls feed entirely on living animals, with the size of the prey proportional to the size of the owl, from insects to mammals as large as hares.
		The eastern screech owl is classified as Otus asio, and the Eurasian scops owl as Otus scops.
	encarta.msn.com /encnet/refpages/RefArticle.aspx?refid=761554738 (565 words)

	White Faced Scops Owl -- Recommendations and Resources (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		There is a species called Scops Owl, ''Otus scops'', in Europe, where it is the only scops owl, but it is named as Eurasian Scops Owl in the world listings to avoid confusion with the many tropical species of scops owl.
		The Collared Scops Owl, ''Otus lettia'', is an owl which is a resident breeder in south Asia from northern Pakistan, northern India and the Himalayas east to south China.
		The Collared Scops Owl is a small (23-25cm) owl, although it is the largest of the scops owls.
	www.becomingapediatrician.com /health/175/white-faced-scops-owl.html (580 words)

	Owl page
		Owls are easily recognized; most everyone in the world knows about owls.
		Since owls are night birds, they are difficult to see although their characteristic songs and calls can often be easily heard.
		Owls of the genus Glaucidium (pygmy-owls and owlets) are primarily crepuscular but can occasional appear in broad daylight to the surprise of all, as did this Northern Pygmy-Owl (below right) that I found sitting on top a telephone pole at mid-morning.
	www.montereybay.com /creagrus/owls.html (1149 words)

	More owls
		As it is believed to be the harbinger of death to the house on which it perches, it is generally abhorred by the local population of Auroville's bioregion.
		Unlike owls of the Strigdea Family (to which the 3 other owls of Auroville belong), the Barn owl relies entirely on its hearing to locate its prey.
		Unlike the closely related common Scops owl 'Otus scops', which lives a somewhat social life, this species is highly territorial.
	www.auroville.org /environment/web_of_life/birds_more_owls.htm (905 words)

	owls in africa
		The evocative frog-like call of the common Scops Owl is as characteristic of the savannah night as the whoop of a hyena.
		All owls lay their eggs in cavities, on the ground or in a nest built by another bird, as it is obviously impossible for a nocturnal bird to gather nesting material of any kind.
		The eerie screech of this ghostly-white owl is certainly a sound to send a shiver down the spine of the uninitiated, but it is a harmless - and in fact very useful — bird, as far as people are concerned, for it helps to control the numbers of rats and mice.
	www.wildwatch.com /resources/birds/owls.asp (971 words)

	Investigating the Llife of Owls
		Owls are sometimes associated with the occult and the strange.
		These studies have shown that owls are very beneficial to the agriculture of their area, for while they consume large numbers of rodents they destroy few beneficial insects or birds.
		A Scops owl or Screech owl is rather a mysterious bird that has a long slim body and speckled plumage which can trick the observer into thinking it is just a withered tree stump.
	www.msnucleus.org /membership/html/k-6/lc/ntenvn/2/lcne2_4a.html (978 words)

	BISON Species Account 041330 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		According to Marshall and King (1988), the closest relative of the flammulated owl is the pallid scops owl (O.brucei), a migratory species that breeds from the Middle East to Pakistan.
		In the Rocky Mountains, flammulated owls are associated with the dry pine belt, foraging primarily in late successional stands of ponderosa pine that are pure or mixed with oak, pinyon pine, true fir, Douglas fir, or aspen (Reynolds and Linkhart 1987, Reynolds et al.
		1995: Flammulated owls in the pacific northwest are predators of the Western spruce budworm and the Douglas-fir tussock moth (Torgersen and Torgersen, 1995) 97.
	fwie.fw.vt.edu /states/nmex_main/species/041330.htm (9559 words)

	Audubon WatchList - Flammulated Owl (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		A small owl, this species has a rather wide but patchy distribution in the mountains of the western U.S. Some authorities think the species may be more closely related to Old World Scops owls rather than the North American screech-owls because its song shares more similarities with the Old World group.
		Like many owls this species is in need of much further research to better understand its ecology, population dynamics, distribution, and status but it is though to be declining from certain forest management practices within its western range.
		Flammulated Owls are migratory and winter from Mexico south to Guatemala.
	audubon2.org /webapp/watchlist/viewSpecies.jsp?id=83 (672 words)

	Owls 2000 : Home Page
		The occurrence of an isolated, supposedly asionine owl (Nesasio) in the Solomon Islands is zoogeographically anomalous.
		The likelihood of post-natal dispersal was higher for females, young owls (1-2 yrs old), owls that did not have a mate in the previous year, and owls that lost their mate from the previous year through death or divorce.
		The large forest owl conservation strategy involved gathering all existing records, conducting additional surveys to fill in gaps, developing a model of preferred owl habitat, conducting preliminary Population Viability Analysis and negotiating a process by which a substantial population of owls would be protected in reserves which met criteria for size and habitat quality.
	www.ausraptor.org.au /owl2000.htm (14114 words)

	12 January 2001 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Galeotti, P. and Sacchi, R. Turnover of territorial Scops Owls Otus scops as estimated by spectrographic analyses of male hoots.
		In order to investigate yearly turnover and site-fidelity of male Scops Owls, the discriminant functions derived from the hoot sample recorded in 1993 were used to classify hoots of individuals recorded in the same territories in 1994.
		The fast decline of our Scops Owl population, probably due to winter mortality, could be responsible for such a high turnover of territorial owners.
	www.oikos.ekol.lu.se /Jab.32.3.abstracts/2786.html (106 words)

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		Some of these hollows were up to 18 inches (45cms) in diameter and over 24 inches (60cms) deep, and although my visit was during the winter, and out of the breeding season, the pairs of birds occupied the nest sites all year round, and roosted together during the day at the entrance to the cavity.
		Indian Scops Owls do not seem to cache food in the nest box to the same extent as others species do.
		The chicks can be rung with a size S ring at 10-14 days old, it is not a legal requirement to close ring, or microchip this species of owl, but it is a good idea to fit either a close ring, or a split ring when the chicks are larger for identification purposes.
	www.ibr.org.uk /dirv4/page207.html (437 words)

	Collared Scops Owl (Otus bakkamoena) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Resembles Scops Owl but is slightly larger; has a grayish collar on the nape: orange eyes: feathered toes.
		The collared scops owl, which has only very minor morphal differences in shades of brown rather than grey and rufous phases, ranges from Pakistan and India across to southern China and Japan and down to Malaysia and the Philippines.
		In the forests of Malaysia the collared scops owl is replaced by the forest-dwelling reddish scops owl and, further up in the mountains, by the spotted scops owl; but through the felling and opening of the primary forest, the collared scops owl is spreading inland at the expense of the others.
	www.bird-stamps.org /recent/laos/1600.htm (537 words)

	afrol News - Seychelles owl "no longer endangered"
		The decision to remove the Scops owl came after a three-year survey on populations of the rare bird.
		Given how difficult the owls are to see, the researchers used taped calls of the owls throughout the night and awaited responses.
		The Seychellois owl was actually declared extinct twice, in 1909 and in 1958, but it was rediscovered in 1960 by a local naturalist.
	www.afrol.com /articles/15563 (588 words)

	BirdForum - What is a Scops Owl?
		There are 41 species of Scops Owls and the genus Otus with the exception of Australia is represented worldwide.
		Scops Owls are the ones that keep you awake in your hotel room thinking "When is that lorry going to stop reversing?".
		For example the Scops Owls at Cibodas in Java are Javan Scops Owls (O. angelinae) but no-one really knows what they call like and I never saw one despite a lot of hard searching over the months.
	www.birdforum.net /showthread.php?t=13787 (1232 words)

	BISON Species Account 041330 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Flammulated owls summer in the mountains of New Mexico almost statewide and are considered rare to locally common.
		The flammulated owl was listed as a fairly common transient (spring and fall) in the Sandia and Manzanita Mountains, within the Cibola National Forest (Bernalillo County).
		UTAH Flammulated Owl, Otus flammeolus flammeolus, occurs in Utah (UTDNR, 1990) 82.
	www.fw.vt.edu /fishex/nmex_main/species/041330.htm (9515 words)

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		For anyone thinking of keeping owls for the first time, the Indian Scops Owl (Otus bakkamoena) is an ideal species to start with.
		Indian Scops Owls measure about 8 inches (20 cms) in length and inhabit lightly wooded regions and dry upland areas as well as orchards, parks and gardens.
		Indian Scops Owls thrive well in quite modest accommodation, I house several pairs within a block of five aviaries, with each one measuring 6ft x 6ft and 9ft deep (2m x 2m x 3m).
	www.ibr.org.uk /dirv4/page206.html (506 words)

	Owlet-Nightjar page
		Like those owls, these species seem to be actually quite common but very nocturnal.
		And, like the owls, they nest in hollows and stumps, laying eggs on the bare floor.
		Sibley and Monroe (1990) place the owlet-nightjars between the owls and the frogmouths, presumably on biochemical as well as other evidence, which makes eminently good sense given their appearance.
	www.montereybay.com /creagrus/owlet-nightjars.html (740 words)

	Serendipitous species discovery in Sri Lanka
		Deepal compared the recording to other Asian owls, and sent it to Pamela Rasmussen, who agreed that while it sounded like an owl, it did not match any of the species known to occur in Sri Lanka, although it was most like Reddish Scops-owl Otus rufescens.
		"The possibility of a new species of owl in a country as well-known ornithologically as Sri Lanka, where the last new bird species was described as long ago as 1868, seemed very remote.
		It was a very small rufous earless owl, quite unlike any other on the island or anywhere else in South Asia.
	www.birdlife.org /news/features/2004/07/scops-owl.html (853 words)

	Birderblog.com - bird watching, bird pictures, birding, bird photos, bird photography blog. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		But there are two different species of scops owls found in Iraq--the Eurasian Scops Owl and the Pallid Scops Owl (which is called the Striated Scops Owl in some books).
		It looks more like the Pallid Scops Owl to me, simply because the underside is so pale and relatively unstreaked, but the two species are tricky to distinguish.
		James Duncan's splendid book, Owls of the World, notes that the Pallid Owl is also known to hunt in early morning and late afternoon.
	birdwatching.birderblog.com /?v=07-12-05 (654 words)

	Scops Owl \| Bird \| Southern Africa... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The Scops Owl is mostly resident throughout most of Africa south of the Sahara.
		Like other small owls, the White-faced Scops Owl is generally insectivorous, although they may take small birds, rodents and other small mammals.
		The White Faced Scops Owl is fully nocturnal and mostly insectivorous.
	www.travel.za.net /africa_scops_owl.html (361 words)

	True Owls (Buboninae): Birds
		African Scops Owl (Otus senegalensis) - Images and Sound.
		Indian Scops Owls (Otus bakkamoena) - Images and Sound.
		Scops Owl (Otus scops) - Text and Images.
	www.infochembio.ethz.ch /links/en/zool_voegel_eulen_echte.html (663 words)

	South Africa Birds - Scops Owl {Otus Leucotis}
		Small grey, nocturnal Owl with striking white face, surrounded by fl edging, and large prominent ear-tufts.
		Scops Owl is resident throughout most of Africa south of the Sahara
		Socialisation: The White Faced Scops Owl is fully nocturnal and mostly insectivorous.
	www.sa-venues.com /wildlife/birds_scops_owl.htm (296 words)

	Splits Typical Owls
		Rediscovery of the Flores Scops Owl, Otus alfredi, on Flores, Indonesia, and reaffirmation of its specific status
		Molecular phylogeny of South American Screech Owls of the Otus atricapillus complex (Aves: Strigidae) inferred from nucleotide sequences of the mitochondrial cytochrome b gene
		The Magellanic Horned Owl differs from the Great Horned Owl in its smaller size (also esp. in bill and talons), much smaller ear-tufts and denser barring on underparts.
	www.ornitaxa.com /SM/Split/SplitTypicalOwls.htm (1531 words)

	Biology and Conservation of Owls, Table of Contents (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Metapopulation Dynamics of a Burrowing Owl (Speotyto cunicularia) Population in Colorado
		Is the Northern Saw-whet Owl (Aegolius acadicus) Nomadic?
		Habitat Fragmentation and Burrowing Owls (Speotyto cunicularia) in Saskatchewan
	www.ncrs.fs.fed.us /epubs/owl/toc.html (1460 words)

	Trip Report - Hohuanshan and other places (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		When I was about to return to our hotel, an owl began calling so close by that I decided to search for it carefully.
		The dense trees made it very difficult to track the source of the sound, even though it was at the very edge of the forest.
		I heard far less SPOTTED SCOPS OWLS than earlier in the night; but in turn, I heard a number of COLLARED SCOPS OWLS.
	www.geocities.com /RainForest/9003/Hohuan.htm (1153 words)

	Prosopopoeia and other Rhetorical Nonsense, or The Romance of the Radiator (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Elf Owls are the smallest of the more than 150 species of owls.
		The Eurasian Scops Owl is easily flustered, but always does a thorough
		The increase in the population of Burrowing Owls in the fields and farmlands
	home.uchicago.edu /~smyacht/owls.html (179 words)

	InfoHub Forums - "WISH YOU ALL MERRY CHRISTMAS"
		The Collared Scops Owl, Otus lettia, is an
		This species is a part of the larger grouping of owls known as
		The Collared Scops Owl is a small (23-25cm) owl, although it is the largest of the
	www.infohub.com /forums/printthread.php?t=662 (228 words)

	Search Results for owls - Encyclopædia Britannica (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Barn owls are sometimes called monkey-faced owls because of their heart-shaped facial disks and absence of ear...
		It is the smallest owl and is about the size of a sparrow.
		Educational reference on the appearance, life history, food habits, conservation, and management of this species of owl, found in Alaska.
	www.britannica.com /search?query=owls&ct= (510 words)

	Gambian birding links (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		It was unfortunate that some of my partners don't know OWLS as well as I do, so they started to feel that they must be frogs or whatever else.
		Many African Scops-Owls and a few Northern White-faced Owls can be heard at Bird Safari Camp on a regular basis, and with a bit of luck, the scops-owls can be tracked down and viewed at night.
		Bird Safari Camp is perhaps one of the best locations in The Gambia to hear large number of African Scops Owls".
	www.bsc.gm /news/fullnews.asp?id=53 (288 words)

	Festive Season bird picture Gallery - December 2002, kibbutz Lotan, Israel
		Over much of the last two weeks, I've focused my attention on finding Striated Scops Owls in the Southern Arava.
		It's a mouthwatering prospect for a winter day in the desert even though the owls themselves are thinly distributed and difficult to find.
		Such a project involves hiking many tens of kilometres in remote desert regions in the process of meticulously checking every Acacia tree, the favoured haunt of Striated Scops Owl.
	www.birdingisrael.com /birdNews/recentSightings/2002/fall2002/dec2002 (227 words)

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