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The forest owlet is small (23 cm) and stocky. It is a typical owlet with a rather unspotted crown and heavily banded wings and tail. They have a relatively large skull and beak. Unlike the spotted owlet, the forest owlet has the fewer and fainter spots on the crown and back. The upperparts are dark grey-brown.
Forest Owlet: In February 1877, Valentine Ball had collected the specimen of Forest Owlet (Athene blewitti) on the banks of River Udanti towards the southern boundary of Sunabeda sanctuary. This fact should have been a great motivator for the foresters and officers in the region to look out for this species which till recently was thought to be ...
The Sokoke scops owl (Otus ireneae), also Morden's scops owl or Morden's owlet, is a highly localized species of scops owl found in lowland forests of Kenya and Tanzania. The greatest population of this species of owl is in the Cynometra - Manilkara forest , which is less than one-third of the Sokoke Forest .
The forest owlet (Athene blewiti), one of the critically endangered owls found in the Central Indian Forest. Genus Uroglaux – Papuan hawk-owl; Genus Ninox – Australasian hawk-owls, 37 species of which one is recently extinct; Genus Margarobyas – bare-legged owl or Cuban screech-owl; Genus Taenioptynx – two species previous placed in ...
Protection of the owl, under both the Endangered Species Act and the National Forest Management Act, has led to significant changes in forest practices in the northwest. President Clinton's controversial Northwest Forest Plan of 1994 was designed primarily to protect owls and other species dependent on old-growth forests while ensuring a ...
Most of us learned about nature and animals in school. But as we step outside the four walls of those classrooms, we realize that the world around us is much more intricate and fascinating than ...
Kurochkin's pygmy owl (Glaucidium kurochkini) is a fossil species known from the La Brea Tar Pits that likely went extinct during the Quaternary extinction. The supposed prehistoric species "Glaucidium" dickinsoni is now recognized as a burrowing owl , probably a paleosubspecies providentiae .
An 1891 painting of the forest owlet, which was rediscovered by Rasmussen in 1997 Rasmussen described four new Asian bird species from her study of museum specimens. The Nicobar scops owl Otus alius, [ 14 ] the Sangihe scops owl Otus collari , [ 15 ] and the cinnabar hawk owl Ninox ios , a Sulawesi endemic , [ 16 ] all in 1998, and the Taiwan ...