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Calling the bird-owl (1 Viewer)

nekodrugi

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Few days ago an owl, Athene noctua, came to the tree under the window and before I got to the camera it was gone.

I have camera with small zoom so I need it under the window again. Is there a way I can "call it". For example if I recerded that "tuuuut" and played it on the speakers on the window? This is a mating call right?

any other ideas?
 
Few days ago an owl, Athene noctua, came to the tree under the window and before I got to the camera it was gone.

I have camera with small zoom so I need it under the window again. Is there a way I can "call it". For example if I recerded that "tuuuut" and played it on the speakers on the window? This is a mating call right?

any other ideas?

Yes, "tuuuut" sounds like it might be the mating or advertising call, though I haven't seen a Little Owl for many years and the only calls I remember personally hearing (in rural England) were loud "kee-icks". Judging from the behavior of other small owls, however, playing back any of its calls is likely to get your bird's attention and might bring it within photographic range, so it's worth a try.

Alternatively, why not attempt to find out where it spends its days? Little Owls are sedentary so the bird you saw probably lives not far away. They're also partly diurnal, being particularly active early and late in the day, and if not persecuted sometimes become quite tame and approachable.

Anyway, they're attractive little birds as I recall, similar in many respects to the North American Burrowing Owls (A. cunicularia) which I see (fairly) regularly here in Nevada (USA).
 
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