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Rescuing Northern Luzon Giant Cloud Rats and Encountering a Mantanani Scops Owl (Full Episode) | Born to be Wild

Aired (January 12, 2025): Doc Ferds Recio rescues two lost Northern Luzon Giant Cloud Rats, while Doc Nielsen Donato travels to Puerto Princesa to investigate the mysterious bird striking fear among ...
Smithsonian Magazine

Rare Owl With Bright Orange Eyes Seen for the First Time in More Than 125 Years

Smithsonian ecologist Andy Boyce reported the rediscovery and photographed the elusive Bornean subspecies of the Rajah scops owl, Otus brookii brookii, in the mountainous forests of Mount Kinabalu in ...
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Pocket-sized owl babies mark first sighting for rare species in over 100 years

In May, nature photographer and ornithologist Tomasz Sczansny was walking through Poland’s Upper Silesia region when he heard a male Eurasian scops owl yelling out “with a territorial voice.” When he ...
Mongabay

New survey finds surprisingly large population of endangered owl

Despite vast forest loss, the Anjouan scops owl is holding on in the Comoros Islands The Anjouan scops owl. Photo by: Alan Van Norman. The Anjouan scops owl—an elusive owl found only on its tiny ...
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An owl not seen in over a century makes a brief return — then vanishes again

Researchers have confirmed the first sighting of a rare owl last seen in Borneo nearly 130 years ago. The rediscovery of the Bornean Rajah scops-owl (Otus brookii brookii) came during a chance ...