Eurasian eagle owl (Bubo bubo) colonizing lowland floodplain forests in south Moravia (Czech Republic) and cases of its breeding in wooden nestboxes

Eurasian eagle owl ( Bubo bubo ) colonizing lowland floodplain forests in south Moravia (Czech Republic) and cases of its breeding in wooden nestboxes This paper presents data on the occurrence and breeding of Eurasian eagle owl ( Bubo bubo ) in south Moravia, Czech Republic (Břeclav and Znojmo dist...

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Published in:Slovak Raptor Journal
Main Authors: Horal, David, ŠKorpíková, Vlasta
Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
Language:unknown
Published: Walter de Gruyter GmbH 2011
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Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.2478/v10262-012-0059-6
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Summary:Eurasian eagle owl ( Bubo bubo ) colonizing lowland floodplain forests in south Moravia (Czech Republic) and cases of its breeding in wooden nestboxes This paper presents data on the occurrence and breeding of Eurasian eagle owl ( Bubo bubo ) in south Moravia, Czech Republic (Břeclav and Znojmo districts), in the floodplains of the Morava and Dyje Rivers, since 1994, and the first cases of confirmed breeding from 2009 to 2011. In two cases, eagle owls bred successfully in large, wooden artificial nestboxes originally installed for saker falcon ( Falco cherrug ).