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Message: <blockquote data-quote="hodalamaya" data-source="post: 1737922" data-attributes="member: 45873"><img src="http://orientalbirdimages.org/images/data/serendib_scops_owl_3411_gdsw.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /> New Owl Species DiscoveredJust to reinforce the fact that many species of wildlife still remain to be discovered, we give here several exciting reports of new owl species recently found to exist. Not surprisingly these consist mainly of small, nocturnal Scops (Otus) or Hawk (Ninox) Owls inhabiting dense tropical rainforests.SRI LANKAOn 28 February 2001 The Straits Times gave the news that a new species of owl had been discovered and photographed in January by a local ornithologist – the first new bird for Sri Lanka since the discovery of the Ceylon Whistling Thrush in 1868. The very clear photograph accompanying the article clearly showed the bird to be a typical yellow eyed ‘little brown job’ – yes, in other words yet another ‘Scops’ owl! The fact it had gone un-noticed until now, says it all!mu tamai ara lankawe witarak inna eka.....</blockquote>

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