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Whistling owl found to be new species
Topic Started: Feb 15 2013, 08:03 AM (38 Views)
Bitsy
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This should attract bird watchers to Lombok Island.
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After hiding in plain sight for more than a century, a small Indonesian owl has finally been revealed for what it is: a previously unrecognized species in the genus Otus, betrayed not by its appearance but by its song.

The newly named Otus jolandae, a scops owl, lives on Lombok island and resembles the owls living on the islands next door. But O. jolandae doesn’t sing the same tune as its neighbor, Otus magicus. The owl’s nocturnal whistling call suggested that the bird living in the foothills of Indonesia’s second-tallest volcano was actually a different species, researchers report today in PLoS ONE.


http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2013/02/who-new-owl-species-thats-who
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wildie
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Bitsy
Feb 15 2013, 08:03 AM
This should attract bird watchers to Lombok Island.
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After hiding in plain sight for more than a century, a small Indonesian owl has finally been revealed for what it is: a previously unrecognized species in the genus Otus, betrayed not by its appearance but by its song.

The newly named Otus jolandae, a scops owl, lives on Lombok island and resembles the owls living on the islands next door. But O. jolandae doesn’t sing the same tune as its neighbor, Otus magicus. The owl’s nocturnal whistling call suggested that the bird living in the foothills of Indonesia’s second-tallest volcano was actually a different species, researchers report today in PLoS ONE.


http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2013/02/who-new-owl-species-thats-who
Who gives a hoot? 12whoohooo
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Darcie
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Interesting ...... when I first went country district teaching (aeons ago now it seems) I heard a whistling at night, just like in a jungle movie sound track. When I asked one of the locals I was told that'd be the tree frogs! Tree frogs!!?? Frogs croak and don't climb trees! I thought he was trying to pull my leg ...... but no. Australian tree frogs introduced in the late 19thC were alive and well in the district. Source Link
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