Dave Torr wrote:
Not sure if you count Monbulk as a suburb, but I had it when I lived
there in June last year - just one night and it was flying round my
house for maybe 10 minutes "barking" - no way it could have been a dog
from the movement!
Dave's record of a flying dog sounds plausible enough, but I do have my
doubts about _some_ suburban Melbourne Barking Owl records of recent years.
Recently when doing some work at Montrose (not so very far from
Monbulk), we used owl playback in a survey. Our Barking Owl taped call
was heard by a local, and dutifully reported elsewhere as a Barking Owl
record! Another resident's description of a Barking Owl barking turned
out to be a brushtail possum coughing. I'm even more sceptical about
records based on the 'screaming woman' call (see earlier e-mail on this
list) - as I'm reasonably certain many of those are foxes, and some may
be Masked Owls.
All of that said, there are some Barkers still hanging on in various
bits of Metro Melbourne. I'd like to see a few more of them checked out
and verified.
L.
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