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29 July 2022 First Record of Ural Owl Strix uralensis Nesting on a Steel Tower
Hitoshi Tojo, Shigeru Matsuoka
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Abstract

Ural Owls Strix uralensis often use nest boxes, but there have been few reports of them using other man-made structures. We discovered a Ural Owl nest on a steel tower in a suburban area in Ibaraki Prefecture, central Japan, in May 2019. The nest had been built in a jointed part of the steel frame that supported the body of the tower, which was approximately 10 m-high. In this case, a neighboring shelterbelt seemed to provide the owls with leaf litter for the nest floor and hiding places for the parents and their fledglings.

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Hitoshi Tojo and Shigeru Matsuoka "First Record of Ural Owl Strix uralensis Nesting on a Steel Tower," Ornithological Science 21(2), 241-244, (29 July 2022). https://doi.org/10.2326/osj.21.241
Received: 27 May 2021; Accepted: 18 October 2021; Published: 29 July 2022
KEYWORDS
man-made structure
nesting
Strix uralensis
Ural owl
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