LITTLE GREY OWL.
DEPREDATIONS ON BIRDS. ACCLIMATISATION SOCIETY ACTS. After having had evidence submitted to it as to the depredations of the little German grey owl the council of the North Canterbury Acclimatisation Society decided night to draw the attention of kindred societies and the Native Birds' Protection Society to the matter and to seek their co-operation in dealing with it. The chairman (Mr L. A. Shand) produced a packet of feathers which he stated had been taken from a nest cunt taining three young grey owls on the north branch stream, near Cl&rkville. The remains were those of ten birds, including the chaffinch, blackbird, waxeyo, starling, thrush, kipgftsher, hedgesparrow, and' skylark, which had bean eaten from the heads downwards. There was also a mouse's tail in the collection. Mr Shand stated that there used to be a number of fantails in the vicinity of the nest but none of these birds was there now. Ho added that there was a colony of the' grey owls near Waipara of which he was sware.
It was also reported that a Sermjiii owl hsid killed a full-grown chukor at the Society's grounds at Greenpark.
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Press, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20736, 22 December 1932, Page 10
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