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| Image details: |
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| Image Description: |
Long-eared Owl chicks in the nest |
| Image notes: |
A brood of Long-eared Owls in a ground nest at Asta. The last known nest in Shetland was destroyed in an illiegal heather burning in 1972. |
| Species in Image: |
Long-Eared Owl |
| Date: |
1968 |
| Area: |
Mainland |
| Old Haa Image Reference Number: |
btc01569 |
| General details: |
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| Common Name |
Long-Eared Owl |
| Latin Name |
Asio otus |
| Latin Group Name |
Strigiformes |
| Latin Family Name |
Strigidae |
| Common Family Name |
Owls |
| Description |
A scarce migrant, rare in winter. About the time of the Snowy Owl excitement a small number of Long-eared Owls became established in the Tingwall Valley near Scalloway and a nest was found in deep heather in 1964. |
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