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Removing a threatened apex predator from an oceanic World Heritage island: the Masked Owls of Lord Howe Island

Authors :
Hank Bower
Nicholas Carlile
David Milledge
Source :
Australian Zoologist. 40:75-91
Publication Year :
2019
Publisher :
Royal Zoological Society of New South Wales, 2019.

Abstract

The Masked Owl Tyto novaehollandiae was introduced to Lord Howe Island in the 1920s to control an irruption of the Black Rat Rattus rattus. The owl is a threatened species in New South Wal...

Details

ISSN :
00672238
Volume :
40
Database :
OpenAIRE
Journal :
Australian Zoologist
Accession number :
edsair.doi...........5376dc641d7c07780d1e331d9f0a919a
Full Text :
https://doi.org/10.7882/az.2019.001