This owl has been around for over a year.I have mating GHOW nest in nearby BBA (was told by resident) after mating season.I have not seen this owl with mate.Unfortunately, haven’t posting site or photos of this owl because of problems with photographers.I was just harassed by trespassing photographer this past week- less than a half mile from this site.Linda Scrima
Sent from the all new Aol app for iOS On Monday, January 25, 2021, 11:02 AM, Larry Scacchetti <[email protected]> wrote: Damn, unfortunately there are no ebird choices for ssp of GHOW other than magellanic, so my info was solely of hawk watchers and owl banders. I also don’t know the sites to look up records from the early 1900’s. Thanks for all the info everyone! Larry Scacchetti On Mon, Jan 25, 2021 at 10:46 AM Richard Veit <[email protected]> wrote: there are at least two extant specimens of B.v. wapacuthu from massachusetts, and apparently there was quite a "flight" of these in 1917-19 (Bull 1964; Veit and Petersen 1993)) On Mon, Jan 25, 2021 at 10:23 AM Shaibal Mitra <[email protected]> wrote: Hi Larry and all, That is certainly a striking looking owl and a candidate for B. v. subarcticus (=wapacuthu in much 20th Century literature). Salzman (1998, in "Bull's Birds of New York State") cites three specimens of Subarctic Great Horned Owl in NYS, from Erie, Bronx, and Suffolk Counties, and mentions specimens from NJ and CT as well. In case you are considering writing this up for NYSARC and/or The Kingbird, note that the date of the old Bronx specimen (AMNH 144845) is given as 15 Feb 1910 by Salzman, but as 15 Feb 1919 by Parkes (who directly examined the specimen, in his 1952 Cornell PhD dissertation). Shai Mitra Bay Shore ________________________________________ From: [email protected] [[email protected]] on behalf of Larry Scacchetti [[email protected]] Sent: Monday, January 25, 2021 9:52 AM To: [email protected] Subject: [nysbirds-l] Ferruginous Hawk and another state first Saturday, Justin Muratore and I located the FEHA on Onion Ave at 8:30 am. The bird circle the field and perched in a tree very close to the road. It offered amazing looks before heading East over the tree line towards Celery Ave. The more amazing bits of the day, for me at least, was the adult subarcticus Great Horned Owl. This subspecies as far as I can tell hasn’t been in the lower 48 outside of MN. The bright with GHOW stood out like a sore thumb. We sat there on the side of the road waiting for the line of speeding cars, heading off the the next FEHA sighting, to pass and then we just had this quiet moment watching this unreal visitor from the north. Photos of the owl, and hawk, can be seen here : https://www.flickr.com/photos/larrybird13/ Good birding, Larry Scacchetti -- NYSbirds-L List Info: Welcome and Basics<http://www.northeastbirding.com/NYSbirdsWELCOME.htm> Rules and Information<http://www.northeastbirding.com/NYSbirdsRULES.htm> Subscribe, Configuration and Leave<http://www.northeastbirding.com/NYSbirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm> Archives: The Mail Archive<http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/maillist.html> Surfbirds<http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/NYSBirds-L> ABA<http://birding.aba.org/maillist/NY01> Please submit your observations to eBird<http://ebird.org/content/ebird/>! -- -- NYSbirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsWELCOME.htm http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsRULES.htm http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/maillist.html 2) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/NYSBirds-L 3) http://birding.aba.org/maillist/NY01 Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ -- -- Richard R. VeitProfessor, BiologyCSI/CUNY2800 Victory BoulevardStaten Island, NY 10314718-982-4144fax 718-982-3852 -- NYSbirds-L List Info: Welcome and Basics Rules and Information Subscribe, Configuration and Leave Archives: The Mail Archive Surfbirds ABA Please submit your observations to eBird! -- -- NYSbirds-L List Info: Welcome and Basics Rules and Information Subscribe, Configuration and Leave Archives: The Mail Archive Surfbirds ABA Please submit your observations to eBird! -- -- NYSbirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsWELCOME.htm http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsRULES.htm http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/maillist.html 2) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/NYSBirds-L 3) http://birding.aba.org/maillist/NY01 Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
