TERRILL NORDSTROM wrote:
On the 28th 0f April I reported a Powerful Owl roosting in the
town centre of Wollongong. Since then I have looked without success to
find the bird until today when I was walking along the beach near
Wollongong looking for beach washed birds, which I do each week, when I
found a dead Powerful Owl at the high tide mark. I cannot say for sure
that it was the same bird but chances are it is. Did it fly out at sea
and got lost or was the bird in the town because food was hard to find
in it's normal range.
Terrill
Possibly the latter - but at this time of year it is likely to have
been a non-breeding 'floater' bird pushed out of other birds' breeding
territories. Your find is interesting, in the general 'black hole'
which is the ecology of non-breeding POs ...
My colleagues here at Ea and I have been studying non-breeding PO
ecology in outer eastern Melbourne over the last year or so, and hope
to publish some of our finding in coming months (years??!!). There are
a lot of assumptions made about PO behaviour/ecology which take little
account of the non-breeding portion of the population. Stay tuned ...
Cheers, Lawrie
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Lawrie Conole
Senior Ecologist
Ornithology & Terrestrial Ecology
Ecology Australia Pty. Ltd.
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