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From: rising@utzoo.uucp (Jim Rising)
Subject: Saw-whet Owls
Message-ID: <1989Aug29.163529.6630@utzoo.uucp>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
Date: Tue, 29 Aug 89 16:35:29 GMT

My sources say that Saw-whet owls lay 4-7 (usually 5-6) eggs, so
a brood of 8 would seem exceptional.

I confess that when I read your note on these birds from Ponca
City, Ok., I thought that they couldn't possibly have been 
Saw-whets in Ok.--but I'm wrong.  I did find a record from near
Tulsa.  Unfortunately I don't have a Birds of Oklahoma handy.
Could anyone fill me in on the species' status in OK?  I suspect
that they're rare as hen's teeth.  Knowing the Great Plains and
the owl's habitat in the Rocky Mts. and Ontario, it seems exceptional
to me that the species would occur in north-central Oklahoma.  Were
there lots of red cedars near your house?  I know that there are north
of there in Kansas.

Warblers are moving through here now.

--Jim Rising
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