Cover; Contents; Preface and acknowledgements; What is an owl?; What is a Ninox?; What is a Southern Boobook?; Studying owls; David Fleay; Surveying owls; Finding owls; Trapping and handling owls; Telemetry; Diet and hunting -- medium-sized owls; Spotted Owls; Boobook summer diet; Boobook prey size; Northern Hawk-Owls and Long-eared Owls; Winter Boobook diet; Great Horned Owls and versatility; Great Grey Owls and wing formulae; Powerful Owl diet; Forest owl diets; Powerful Owls and dimorphism; Breeding; Southern Boobook calls; Borders; Duetting and duelling; Weather and calling., A lover's trianglePre-breeding behaviour; Colour plates; Nests and breeding habitat; Timing of breeding; Pair behaviour -- incubation; Pair behaviour -- prey deliveries; Fledging age; Female desertion; Fledgling behaviour; Snowy Owls; David Lack's theory of limiting factors; Tawny Owls in Kielder Forest; Duelling and nest failures; Conservation; Spotted Owls; Athene and Burrowing Owls; Little Owls; Conserving Australian owls; Conservation techniques; Wallacea; Wallacea; Sumba Barn Owls; Sumba Boobook; New species; Eviction; Appendix A: Australian owls., and Appendix B: Rehabilitating injured and orphaned owlsReferences; Index.
Summary
Descriptions, anecdotes and conservation issues referring to Australia's major owl species.
