From Neil Bowman
Flores Scops-owl is a rare and endangered species, but what a little cracker. Taken on Flores Island in Indonesia.
This small owl is so rare that only 4 specimens have been collected from the 1890s to the 1990s.
I’ll occasionally mention that owls still have a lot of secrets since there are some we don’t know much more about than that they exist.
I enjoy sharing such rare animals since most of us would otherwise never have known they existed. We could lose them forever at any time and may not even know. I wish there were more I could share about them, but that mystery may sometimes be their gift to us, and it’s a reminder to appreciate what we still have and still have left to learn.
Here’s a short paper on the Flores Scops with some theories about it.
thank you for sharing this. very handsome little owl that I hope finds a way to bounce back.
I hope so too. I hope more people start to embrace the natural beauty of their homelands and that the rest of us continue to seek out that which is wild and undiscovered for us on a personal level.
