Long-eared Owl - 1949 status
Tuesday, August 27, 2013 at 7:46AM
Pembrokeshire Avifauna committee in 1949 BoP, Long-eared Owl

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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