Powerful owl [SEC=UNCLASSIFIED]

["Whitworth, Benjamin - BRS" <>]

I went to the ANBG today and did not see the Powerful owl. I did see the Ranger who mentioned that Twitchers had been walking on the garden beds. They have now put tapes around the site.

As far as I can work out Powerful Owls are not Declared threatened in the ACT. In NSW they are listed as Vulnerable, see below:

 

http://www.nationalparks.nsw.gov.au/npws.nsf/Content/Powerful+owl+vulnerable+species+listing Fact sheet on website of ‘Dept of Environment and Climate Change, NSW’

 

Powerful owl - vulnerable species listing

 

The powerful owl (Ninox strenua) is listed as VULNERABLE on the schedules of the NSW Threatened Species Conservation Act. The species was listed because:

 

• Its distribution has been reduced
• Its population is suspected to be reduced
• It faces moderate threatening processes
• It is an ecological specialist (it depends on particular types of diet or habitat)
• It has poor recovery potential

 

The above reasons are a summary of why the species was listed as vulnerable.

 

An interesting profile of the Powerful owl as a threatened species is also available at

http://www.threatenedspecies.environment.nsw.gov.au/tsprofile/profile.aspx?id=10562

 

Benj Whitworth

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