The Zoochat Photographic Guide To Owls

lintworm said:
I have uploaded a picture of African scops owl in the Ethiopia wildlife gallery and one of a Madagascar scops owl in the Madagascar wildlife gallery.
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I have now removed these taxa from the master list of missing species :) and edited the photographs into the relevant entries.
 
Following the upload (with his permission) of several photographs taken by @alexkant previously only visible on his personal website, I have filled a few more gaps; as such this thread (and the gallery) now contains images for:

Tyto castanops
Strix hadorami
Otus sunia
Otus longicornis
Otus semitorques
Mimizuku gurneyi
Ninox philippensis
Bubo blakistoni

Furthermore, extra subspecies have been added here and there, along with an image of pure Athene lilith - the existing image in the thread, as already discussed, representing a bird with probable hybrid ancestry.
 
Due to the presence of several Little Owl subspecies on the margins of the range of this species, which has led to some natural hybridisation where they occur sympatrically, even within Israeli collections there is quite a substantial range in pelage within Athene lilith.

As such I thought it would be interesting to reproduce below the aforementioned image taken by @ThylacineAlive at Scottish Owl Centre depicting the last survivor of the European captive population of Lilith Owl, and compare it to several individuals photographed in a number of captive collections in Israel by @alexkant

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It is noticeable, I feel, that two or three of these Israeli birds resemble the individual present at SOC quite closely, whilst others differ a lot!
 
TeaLovingDave said:
Pel's Fishing Owl (Bubo peli)

The range of this species extends patchily throughout sub-Saharan Africa, with populations scattered across southern West Africa, the Congo Basin and east Africa from Sudan and Somalia southward into Botswana and eastern South Africa.

Monotypic; no photographs of this taxon exist in the Zoochat gallery.
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Thanks to a visit to Prague today, where this species recently went onshow, I have taken photographs of this species which will follow anon.
 
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