Gazelle : The Palestinian Biological Bulletin (ISSN 0178 – 6288) . Number 142, October 2016, pp. 1-13.

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The Desert Tawny Owl (Strix hadorami
Kirwan, Schweizer and Copete, 2015) :
New Species of Bird Discovered in
Palestine
‫البومة السمراء الصحراوية (ستريكس هادورامي) : إكتشاف نوع جديد من الطيور في فلسطين‬

By : Prof. Dr. Sc. Norman Ali Bassam Ali Taher KhalafSakerfalke von Jaffa

Desert Tawny Owl (Strix hadorami Kirwan, Schweizer and Copete, 2015). Image credit: © Rony
Lybanah.
http://cfzwatcheroftheskies.blogspot.ae/2015/01/desert-tawny-owl-new-species-ofbird.html

A group of ornithologists led by Dr. Manuel Schweizer from the Natural History
Museum of Bern in Switzerland has described a new cryptic species of owl that
inhabits the desert areas of Palestine, Israel, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Jordan, Oman
and Yemen (Prostak, 2015).
The newly-discovered species, named the Desert Tawny Owl, belongs to the
earless owl genus, Strix (Prostak, 2015).
Gazelle : The Palestinian Biological Bulletin – Number 142 – October 2016