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Post by sebbe67 on May 16, 2005 16:35:52 GMT
Scops commersoni, from Mauritius. it has a very big scop owl almost two feet long, some suggest that it was a subspecies of the Madagascan long-eared owl. The only record which shows that it survived in historically time is report from a man called Julien Desjardins (born on Mauritius) in september 1837. Julien wrote: "In september 1837 many residents of La Savane told me they had seen owls in their forest (apperently the description fits into this species), there was also a record in 1837 of a single owl shoot in the wood of Curipipe, not known when this bird become extinct but it couldent have survived for long and were gone by 1850.
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Post by sebbe67 on May 16, 2005 16:36:45 GMT
pic in the book: The Doomsday book of animals, page 65.
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Post by another specialist on Jun 6, 2005 14:37:44 GMT
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Post by sebbe67 on Mar 5, 2006 15:33:43 GMT
 Source: The Doomsday book |
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Post by another specialist on May 15, 2008 10:04:19 GMT
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Post by another specialist on May 15, 2008 12:08:44 GMT
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Post by another specialist on Jul 17, 2008 16:17:56 GMT
  Extinct birds : an attempt to unite in one volume a short account of those birds which have become extinct in historical times : that is, within the last six or seven hundred years : to which are added a few which still exist, but are on the verge of extinction (1907) |
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Post by another specialist on Oct 23, 2008 18:37:05 GMT
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Post by another specialist on Oct 23, 2008 18:37:40 GMT
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Post by another specialist on Oct 23, 2008 18:38:23 GMT
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