BROWN FISH OWLS in Southern Turkey

[LeeEvans]

Despite featuring on the tours of daily boat trips throughout the summer months, the pair of cave-dwelling BROWN FISH OWLS that inhabit one location just north of Manavgat have only just filtered through to the twitching community.

This really does beg the question of how many Brown Fish Owls actually survive in southern Turkey. It seems likely that there are over ten pairs.

Interestingly, I was given a site virtually identical to this latest one in northern Israel many years ago, but despite searching, could not locate the nesting cave. At the time, I wrote the record off as probably relating to Eagle Owls but I am not so sure now

This latest pair can be safely watched at distance from the tripper boats, boarded from by the dam at the SW end of Oymapinar Baraji. If you are lucky, the birds will be sat close to the entrance to the caves.

[BBREE]

Hi there,
My contact Arnoud Van den Berg and colleagues with Dutch Birding had them at Little Canyon near Green Canyon in southern Turkey in 2009 breeding seen from the busy tourist boats they are shown to toursits as rare Owls.
More on Dutch Birding website and :-
http://www.netfugl.dk/pictures.php?id=showpicture&picture_id=41512&language=uk
Kind regards,
From mild Jersey where 700 Balearic Shearwaters are in the Bay of St Brieuc sheltering now and up Channel hundreds of Scopoli's mis identified as Corys
with Sooty and Great in small numbers and the odd Yelkouan possibly which are like a Manx type Balearic but legs different length on the tail and bill and head different shape. I watch them at M....ille breeding nearby. They breed just off Provence coast in good numbers! In the Channel also good Tern passage and Kittiwakes moving with the winds plus Grey Herons and waders!
Kind regards. http://www.jersey.com

[Brian S]

From mild Jersey where 700 Balearic Shearwaters are in the Bay of St Brieuc sheltering now and up Channel hundreds of Scopoli's mis identified as Corys
with Sooty and Great in small numbers and the odd Yelkouan possibly which are like a Manx type Balearic but legs different length on the tail and bill and head different shape. I watch them at M....ille breeding nearby.

Hi Bertram

I couldn't let this go without a comment.

So you think (or know?) that 'hundreds of Scopoli's' Shearwaters are seen up the English Channel and are being misidentified as Cory's? Can you back this up with proof?

Brian S

[darrenjhughes]

Thanks Brian
I was going to spam previous posting sends in records to marinelife/Charm project I have already warned them