FreeLists / tn-bird / [TN-Bird] road-killed northern saw-whet owl in dekalb co.

[Stephen Stedman <SStedman@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Yesterday I found a banded, road-killed Northern Saw-whet Owl in DeKalb
County.  I submitted the band number to the Bird Banding Lab via the
BBL's online band reporting site. The owl I found yesterday had been
banded in Wisconsin Oct. 20, 2004. I plan to donate the specimen, which
is in pretty good condition (photo at my website), to the Obed Wild and
Scenic River, a National Park Service unit in Wartburg, if they wish to
mount it for display; otherwise it will go to a bird collection at a
univ. here in TN.
 
Looks like the coming winter might be a good one for saw-whets in
Tennessee.  I'd recommend adding a NSWO tape to the collection of tapes
you use for night work during CBCs or doing some work to improve your
whistled imitation of this owl's "toot" call; it's pretty easy to
imitate.  It will be interesting to see if more than the usual (very
small) number of saw-whets gets reported on this year's CBCs and if the
reports come from areas other than the far eastern end of the state.
 
Steve Stedman
Cookeville, TN (and the surrounding Upper Cumberland Region)
 
 
 
 
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