Barking Owl?

["Philip Veerman" <>]

Pity this did not come up at the COG meeting last night. It would generate much interest. It is not unprecedented but a very unusual or rare occurrence if that is what it is. This is well worth looking out for. As you can see from the extract below, the timing appears consistent with previous GBS observations, though this is with a small sample size. Here is the text from my book: Canberra Birds: A Report on the first 21 years of the Garden Bird Survey,  (page 62).

"Barking Owl Ninox connivens

A rare species that inhabits woodland and occasionally turns up in suburbs at the western side of the city. Interesting that observations are only in the months of July, August and one in September. This suggests that, like the common Southern Boobook, both species are noted most often in the early part of their breeding period. The Barking Owl (probably because it is bigger), begins breeding earlier in the year than the Southern Boobook. There are no ACT breeding records (Wilson 1999).
Rank: 174, A = 0.00021, F = 0.29%, W = 0.5, R = 0.017%, G = 1.21."

 

Philip