The wintering of the Scops Owl in Honshiu

Abstract

In Hand-list 1958, the Scops Owl is given as possibly resident in Honshiu, with records of late November and December. Up to present the writer collected its more evidences of from November through February in Tokyo and Kobe area. Stomachs contained grasshoppers, moths, etc. and it is suggestive that some wintering birds were found in places where shrike's larders were plentiful.