[Birdnet] Northern Hawk Owl

[Kevin Colver]

You might check out the song of the Boreal Owl to see if it matches  
the sounds you've heard at the cabin.  Northern Saw-whet Owl would be  
a long shot but sounds less like the Hawk-owl than does Boreal.
Kevin

Kevin Colver


colver at csolutions.net



On Nov 12, 2007, at 9:14 PM, Connie McManus wrote:

> I went to Cornell's All about Birds page and looked up this bird.  
> As I listened to the recording of the sound this owl makes, it  
> brought back memories of when I lived in Garden City (RIch  
> County).  I owned a cabin in the mountains overlooking Bear Lake  
> and would sit out on the deck spring evenings and hear this same or  
> similar call.  I could have listened to it all night long and have  
> always wondered what made it.  Judging from the fact that  
> utahbirds.org doesn't even have Northern Hawk Owl in the bird  
> guide, I have to assume this bird is very rarely seen this far  
> south.  But, every spring that same call would sound through the  
> forrest, always at night.  I'm still curious to know what kind of  
> night bird makes a sound similar to the Norther Hawk Owl.  Anyone  
> know?  I can't believe that every spring I was hearing a Northern  
> Hawk Owl in Garden City, Utah. If so, maybe next spring someone  
> should spend some time checking it out???
>
> -- 
> Connie McManus
> Nibley, Cache County, Utah
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