I have this article if anyone would like a copy. >On Thu, 2 Dec 2004 [email protected] wrote: > > Pentti Alaja and Heimo Mikkola have apparently published information about > albinism in GGOW, but thus far I have unable to locate this information... >> > >Ben and Steve, > >"Albinism in the Great Gray Owl (Strix nebulosa) and other owls" by >Alaja and Mikkola was published on pp. 33_37 in: >Duncan, J.R., D.H. Johnson, and T.H. Nicholls (eds.). 1997. Biology and >Conservation of Owls of the Northern Hemisphere. USDA Forest Service >General Technical Report NC-190. > >The authors note that although total and/or incomplete albinism has been >reported in 13 different owl species, the Great Gray is the only species >of owl with more than five published records, as follows: > >27 March into November 1994, Vesanto, Finland and probably the same bird >(based on comparison of photos) 165 km farther north in March 1995 near >Kajaani, Finland, incomplete albino (Blue Jay 52:228, Dutch Birding >1/95:19_20). > >(no dates) 1980 in Targhee National Forest, Idaho, followed by several >observations between 1990 and 1992 in SE Idaho about 112 km from the >Targhee N.F. site, male incomplete albino, mated with normally-plumaged >female and raised normally-plumaged young (Blue Jay 53:197_199). > >(no dates) two or three partial albino Great Grays in Yellowstone N.P. >seen by Terry McEneaney fide D.W. Holt (Canadian Field-Naturalist >109:121_122). > >prior to mid-1980s, five Great Grays with some abnormal white feathers >noted by Herbert Copeland and Robert Nero among 300+ live and 80 dead >Great Grays examined (Blue Jay 42:173_174). > >June 1990 near Norway House, Manitoba, incomplete albino (Blue Jay 49:31). > >December 1990 different incomplete albino north of Winnipeg (Blue Jay >49:32). > >The article includes photographs of the Finland and Idaho birds, defines >all of the terms referred to above, and lists records of albinism in other >species of owls. Based on this information, a note of interest in The Loon >regarding the melanistic and albinistic Great Grays seen in Minnesota, >especially if accompanied by photographs, would make a fine contribution >to the world literature. > >--- >Peder H. Svingen - [email protected] - Duluth, MN >_______________________________________________ >mou-net mailing list >[email protected] >http://cbs.umn.edu/mailman/listinfo/mou-net
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