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Preface and acknowledgements | p. ix |
What is an owl? | p. 1 |
What is a Ninox? | p. 9 |
What is a Southern Boobook? | p. 15 |
Studying owls | p. 21 |
David Fleay | p. 23 |
Surveying owls | p. 29 |
Finding owls | p. 33 |
Trapping and handling owls | p. 39 |
Telemetry | p. 49 |
Diet and hunting - medium-sized owls | p. 53 |
Spotted Owls | p. 55 |
Boobook summer diet | p. 59 |
Boobook prey size | p. 65 |
Northern Hawk-Owls and Long-eared Owls | p. 71 |
Winter Boobook diet | p. 77 |
Great Horned Owls and versatility | p. 83 |
Great Grey Owls and wing formulae | p. 89 |
Powerful Owl diet | p. 95 |
Forest owl diets | p. 103 |
Powerful Owls and dimorphism | p. 109 |
Breeding | p. 117 |
Southern Boobook calls | p. 119 |
Borders | p. 129 |
Duetting and duelling | p. 135 |
Weather and calling | p. 139 |
A lover's triangle | p. 143 |
Pre-breeding behaviour | p. 147 |
Colour plates | p. 151 |
Nests and breeding habitat | p. 167 |
Timing of breeding | p. 173 |
Pair behaviour - incubation | p. 181 |
Pair behaviour - prey deliveries | p. 185 |
Fledging age | p. 193 |
Female desertion | p. 197 |
Fledgling behaviour | p. 201 |
Snowy Owls | p. 209 |
David Lack's theory of limiting factors | p. 213 |
Tawny Owls in Kielder Forest | p. 219 |
Duelling and nest failures | p. 223 |
Conservation | p. 231 |
Spotted Owls | p. 233 |
Athene and Burrowing Owls | p. 237 |
Little Owls | p. 241 |
Conserving Australian owls | p. 247 |
Conservation techniques | p. 253 |
Wallacea | p. 263 |
Wallacea | p. 265 |
Sumba Barn Owls | p. 269 |
Sumba Boobook | p. 275 |
New species | p. 281 |
Eviction | p. 289 |
Australian owls | p. 297 |
Rehabilitating injured and orphaned owls | p. 334 |
References | p. 349 |
Index | p. 359 |
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