Tuesday
Aug272013
Long-eared Owl - 1949 status

Asio otus otus
A scarce resident, which has bred occasionally. An adult and half-grown young in a small copse near Granant, 30 May 1912 (B.Birds XVIII 233). Has nested at Solva and near St Dogmaels (Bertram Lloyd). In 1935 nested in an old Magpie's nest in a small willow on the Dowrog, near St Davids (A.Brook).
R.M.Lockley, G.C.S.Ingram, H.M.Salmon, 1949, The Birds of Pembrokeshire, The West Wales Field Society
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1949 BoP in
Long-eared Owl


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