G'day Peter,
It's the combination of three or four features all in the one bird that
suggest Tasmanian Boobook, yellow eyes, small white spotting surrounding the
face and elsewhere if you could see it eg hindneck, and as John has said
white markings in the belly presenting more as overlaid white circles with
less of a tendency towards longitudinal shapes. Steve Clarke also felt that
the bird looked particularly small, ssp leucopsis is over 10% smaller than
ssp boobook.
Cheers Jeff.
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From:
On Behalf Of Peter Shute
Sent: Tuesday, 11 June 2013 11:49 AM
To: 'John Tongue'; 'Steve'
Cc: 'Birding Aus'
Subject: Possible Tasmanian Morepork in Victoria
Apparently this winter dispersal is unproven, so it would be good to prove
whether this bird really is of that type, regardless of whether it's split
or not. What features tell you it looks like Tasmanian Boobooks, John?
Peter Shute
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> Tongue
> Sent: Monday, 10 June 2013 7:28 PM
> To: Steve
> Cc: Birding Aus
> Subject: Re: [Birding-Aus] Possible Tasmanian Morepork in Victoria
>
> Hi all,
> I don't know enough about Boobook differentiation and movements. I
> must say, I am still mystified about how Tasmanian Morepork could be
> split from Aus Boobook, and then lumped with NZ and Norfolk Island
> Morepork??
>
> However, Pizzey does talk of some winter dispersal of the Tasmanian
> race of Boobook to the mainland, so it's possible that's what you
> have. From the pic's, it certainly looks like Tassie birds I've seen.
>
> Cheers,
> John Tongue
> Ulverstone, Tas.
>
>
> On 10/06/2013, at 6:56 PM, Steve wrote:
>
> > G'day all
> >
> > This owl has been roosting in my garden for 9 days now. My
> wife Jenny and I took photos today and they can be seen at:
> >
> > https://www.flickr.com/photos/bukoba_steve/sets/72157634040230069/
> >
> > I believe this is a Tassy Morepork (Ninox novaeseelandiae
> leucopsis) - recently split by the IOC from the Southern Boobook
> (Ninox boobook). Others who have seen the photos have tended to agree
> with me.
> >
> > Anyway - all comments welcome.
> >
> > Hopefully I'll get some shots from different angles but
> this will be difficult if it stays in the same trees.
> >
> > Cheers
> > Steve
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