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(Message started by: isaac_chan on Apr 8^th, 2006, 9:08pm)

Title: Unknown Owl
Post by isaac_chan on Apr 8^th, 2006, 9:08pm

Sea near Po Toi 蒲台島附近海域
8/4/2006 (taken from 15:15 to 15:16)
D2x + Sigma 120-300mm + 1.4x

Would anyone please help to identify this owl?

It was really far away from us and the images here are already 1:1 crop of 6 consecutive images... :P

http://nature.hc.edu.tw/vbb/attachment.php?attachmentid=18303&stc=1

Title: Re: Unknown Owl
Post by Mike Kilburn on Apr 8^th, 2006, 10:37pm

This looks very much like Brown Hawk Owl to me.

Why?

1. Uniform brown upperwings and long banded tail (centre top).
2. Absence of facial disc, and white feathering around the bill and prominent eyes (centre top)
3. Distinctively streaked underparts (upper left & right, bottom centre & right)
4. Bulging secondaries consistent with flight illustration in old Japanese guide
5. Slender body shape not consistent with the solid bulk of Eagle Owl.

Excellent! - a new bird for me . . . if anyone can tell which of the Hawk Owls it is . . . any thoughts on this greatly appreciated.

A great set of pix of a distant flying bird from a rocking boat - good job Issac!

Cheers
Mike K

Title: Re: Unknown Owl
Post by isaac_chan on Apr 9^th, 2006, 10:26pm

Thanks Mike.

Title: Re: Unknown Owl
Post by Yat-tung YU on Apr 10^th, 2006, 12:38am

After checking my photos, I also think it is a Brown Hawk Owl to me. Please see my photos.

http://www.hkbws.org.hk/fileServer/PhotoG/Tung/tung009.jpg

http://www.hkbws.org.hk/fileServer/PhotoG/Tung/tung010.jpg

http://www.hkbws.org.hk/fileServer/PhotoG/Tung/tung011.jpg

http://www.hkbws.org.hk/fileServer/PhotoG/Tung/tung012.jpg