Most famous Canberra bird?

[Julian Robinson <>]

re the illustrious Owl -- is there any other single bird that has
received as much attention as (i.e. been more famous than) the ANBG
Powerful Owl, ever, in the ACT?  As has been pointed out, this is
not a totally trivial exercise when it comes to getting new members to
COG and winning environmental arguments, although measurement might be
tricky.  A BFI = bird famousness index could be based on the number
of people, inc enthusiasts, experts and the public, who a) travel to see
it, and b) know about it.  This owl surely must be a good candidate
-- or have there been greater stars in COG history? 

Julian

At 01:39 PM 30/05/2007, Philip Veerman wrote:
> It appears sensible
> to me that the Powerful Owls are not Declared threatened in the ACT .
> There are so few of them in the ACT that protection status is not much of
> an issue. More to the point, their favoured habitat is well preserved in
> the ACT. There is little more that would need to be done for them.
> Compared to so many other species that live in woodland habitat that is
> under threat. In NSW the situation is different, as unlike ACT, a lot of
> NSW forest habitat is in decline (in historical terms). They are not as
> specialist in feeding as has been previously thought.
>  
> Philip

Cheers

Julian
Canberra
Australia
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