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Author Olsen, Jerry.

Title Australian High Country Owls.

Publication Info. Melbourne : CSIRO Publishing, 2011.

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Description 1 online resource (377 pages)
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Contents Cover; Contents; Preface and acknowledgements; What is an owl?; What is a Ninox?; What is a Southern Boobook?; Studying owls; David Fleay; Surveying owls; Finding owls; Trapping and handling owls; Telemetry; Diet and hunting -- medium-sized owls; Spotted Owls; Boobook summer diet; Boobook prey size; Northern Hawk-Owls and Long-eared Owls; Winter Boobook diet; Great Horned Owls and versatility; Great Grey Owls and wing formulae; Powerful Owl diet; Forest owl diets; Powerful Owls and dimorphism; Breeding; Southern Boobook calls; Borders; Duetting and duelling; Weather and calling.
A lover's trianglePre-breeding behaviour; Colour plates; Nests and breeding habitat; Timing of breeding; Pair behaviour -- incubation; Pair behaviour -- prey deliveries; Fledging age; Female desertion; Fledgling behaviour; Snowy Owls; David Lack's theory of limiting factors; Tawny Owls in Kielder Forest; Duelling and nest failures; Conservation; Spotted Owls; Athene and Burrowing Owls; Little Owls; Conserving Australian owls; Conservation techniques; Wallacea; Wallacea; Sumba Barn Owls; Sumba Boobook; New species; Eviction; Appendix A: Australian owls.
Appendix B: Rehabilitating injured and orphaned owlsReferences; Index.
Summary Descriptions, anecdotes and conservation issues referring to Australia's major owl species.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Subject Owls -- Australia.
Owls.
Australia.
Owls -- Australia -- Identification.
Genre/Form Field guides.
Subject Mountain animals -- Australia.
Mountain animals.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Electronic books -- Guidebooks.
Guidebooks.
Electronic books -- Guidebooks.
Guidebooks.
Other Form: Print version: Olsen, Jerry. Australian High Country Owls. Melbourne : CSIRO Publishing, ©2011 9780643097056
ISBN 9780643104112 (electronic book)
0643104119 (electronic book)
9780643104105 (electronic book)
0643104100 (electronic book)
9780643097056 (paperback)