Hi Larry and all, That is certainly a striking looking owl and a candidate for B. v. subarcticus (=wapacuthu in much 20th Century literature).
Salzman (1998, in "Bull's Birds of New York State") cites three specimens of Subarctic Great Horned Owl in NYS, from Erie, Bronx, and Suffolk Counties, and mentions specimens from NJ and CT as well. In case you are considering writing this up for NYSARC and/or The Kingbird, note that the date of the old Bronx specimen (AMNH 144845) is given as 15 Feb 1910 by Salzman, but as 15 Feb 1919 by Parkes (who directly examined the specimen, in his 1952 Cornell PhD dissertation). Shai Mitra Bay Shore ________________________________________ From: bounce-125331055-3714...@list.cornell.edu [bounce-125331055-3714...@list.cornell.edu] on behalf of Larry Scacchetti [larrybird4...@gmail.com] Sent: Monday, January 25, 2021 9:52 AM To: NYSbirds-L@cornell.edu Subject: [nysbirds-l] Ferruginous Hawk and another state first Saturday, Justin Muratore and I located the FEHA on Onion Ave at 8:30 am. The bird circle the field and perched in a tree very close to the road. It offered amazing looks before heading East over the tree line towards Celery Ave. The more amazing bits of the day, for me at least, was the adult subarcticus Great Horned Owl. This subspecies as far as I can tell hasn’t been in the lower 48 outside of MN. The bright with GHOW stood out like a sore thumb. We sat there on the side of the road waiting for the line of speeding cars, heading off the the next FEHA sighting, to pass and then we just had this quiet moment watching this unreal visitor from the north. Photos of the owl, and hawk, can be seen here : https://www.flickr.com/photos/larrybird13/ Good birding, Larry Scacchetti -- NYSbirds-L List Info: Welcome and Basics<http://www.northeastbirding.com/NYSbirdsWELCOME.htm> Rules and Information<http://www.northeastbirding.com/NYSbirdsRULES.htm> Subscribe, Configuration and Leave<http://www.northeastbirding.com/NYSbirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm> Archives: The Mail Archive<http://www.mail-archive.com/nysbirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html> Surfbirds<http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/NYSBirds-L> ABA<http://birding.aba.org/maillist/NY01> Please submit your observations to eBird<http://ebird.org/content/ebird/>! -- -- NYSbirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsWELCOME.htm http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsRULES.htm http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/nysbirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/NYSBirds-L 3) http://birding.aba.org/maillist/NY01 Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
