Hi Birders,
Carl Corden asked about the status of Masked Owls in the Berowra-Hornsby
area and this is what I have found out from the records of Birding NSW as
published in their Annual Reports. Masked Owls are raely recorded in Sydney
(=County of Cumberland), indeed this has always been the case as Hindwood &
McGill 1956 (The Birds of Sydney) only mentioned one record, that at Menai
in 1949, while E.S.Hoskin 1991 (Birds of Sydney), reports two breeding
records, at Lindfield 1906 and Warriewood 1974. Overall, Masked Owls in the
County of Cumberland are confined to the tall forests on Sydney's North
Shore, Lindfield to Berowra, and to the south in the tall wet forests of
Royal National Park. However they are moderately common to the north of
Sydney on the Central Coast.and to the north-west of Sydney, in the St
Albans, Colo & Colo Heights area of Hawkesbury Shire. Vagrants are reported
elsewhere.
Set out below are all published records that have appeared in the NSW Annual
Bird Reports, Debus & Rose1994 (Large Forest Owls of NSW Aust. Birds 48,
S40-64) and previously mentioned references, note that there are more
records for Sep-Apr, than the rest of the year:
1897 specimen Liverpool
1888 specimen Concord
1905 specimen Cooks River
1906 Nesting Lindfield
1916 specimen Wallacia
1935 29/8 1 Avalon
1949 Menai
1960 9/2 roosting West Pennant Hills
1965 10/6 specimen Newport
1966 Reported 1966-1976 by Reynolds/Atlas
1967 22/4 road kill (=RK) specimen Pennant Hills
1968 27/1 specimen Dee Why, 23/11 found dead Kenthurst
1970 30/6 RK Lady Carrington Drive Royal NP
1972 7/9 Pennant Hills
1974 Resident Warriewood, nesting.
1975 13/11 Hornsby Heights
1980 2/10, flush in Ku-ring-gai Chase NP near Asquith
1985 14/4 Wynyard Park, 23/4 1 Campsie
14/11 1 Lady Carrington Drive, RNP
1991 17/10 HC Cowan Creek, 19/10 RK Annangrove, 18-30/4 AF Heathcoate
adjoining RNP
1997 11/12 RK Richmond
1999 30/1 HC Lady Carrington Drive RNP
2000 12/11 Lady Carrington Drive RNP, 26/12 RK St Ives
2002 12/12 1 found dead Sydney Domain, -/10 Cowan Creek, pellets found
containing Antechinus stuarti bones
2003 12/1, another found dead the Domain, Sydney, 5/6 found dead Sydney
Bot. Gardens
2005 -/6 HC Berowra Regional Park
Alan Morris
Editor, NSW Annual Bird Report
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