G’day,
I think it was Murray Lord who asked for info on lurida calls (hi Murray!)
Some 20 years ago I was hauled up an extremely tall and intimidating tree by John Young, somewhere near Ingham, in order to try for Lesser Sooty Owl. Heard but failed to see it but did see a “Little Red Boobook”. And I survived being winched back down to the land of ground-dwellers. Notes that I made at the time from my observations and John’s comments included:
– Significantly smaller. – More gutteral call. – Dark underparts / no streaks / barred flanks. – Dark mantle and wings – just a few pale spots.
I also noted that it co-exists with the dark form of Southern Boobook on Mount Lewis.
Lloyd Nielsen would certainly be able to elaborate further – and I saw him spring up the same tree in John Young fashion some weeks later.
Cheers – Trevor Ford. ===============================
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This is a general request for photos of Boobooks from the Wet Tropics of nth Qld including ssps lurida and boobook, either in the rainforest or anywhere between the rainforest and the coast including dry eucalypt forest. I’m intending to illustrate these birds in the near future and would like to get a better understanding of what Boobooks look like in this particular region.
Cheers Jeff Davies.