Larry I’ll be happy to examine and photograph these specimens if you think it would be helpful.
Paul Paul Sweet | Collection Manager | Department of Ornithology | American Museum of Natural History | Central Park West @ 79th St | NY 10024 | Tel 212 769 5780 | Mob 718 757 5941 > On Jan 25, 2021, at 10:23 AM, Shaibal Mitra <[email protected]> > wrote: > > EXTERNAL SENDER > > > 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. 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