[NatureNS] Photos of Florida Burrowing Owl

Date: Fri, 08 Mar 2013 09:36:26 -0400
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All:

This is a plea  for photos of the Florida Burrowing Owl, which are  
favourite subjects of birders visiting that state.

Dave Currie and I are preparing an account and circumstances of an  
individual of the Florida subspecies present, astonishingly, on  
McNab's I., Halifax Harbour, in late October. It was fortuitously  
filmed by Wade Cornell and shown Feb. 17 on the CBC  "Land & Sea"  
program  on  Nova Scotia's islands. There is no doubt of the validity  
of the record. It has likely long-gone or perished, and was not found  
on a recent excursion to the island.

It turns out that there have been other records of the "non-migratory"  
Florida subspecies in New England, so we've stirred up wider interest  
in the issue.

I have a reasonable photo of the western subspecies. A photograph of  
the FL subspecies that Dave Currie and I could use in our write-up of  
the record for "Nova Scotia Birds" would be very useful. We hope  
someone has one hidden in their photo files. If so, could you send any  
good ones (will appear in colour) tyo me?

Cheers and thanks, Ian

Ian McLaren (as acting editor, "NS Birds")

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