Forest Owlet

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I hope it can be saved from extinction - so many species throughout the world threatened, chiefly, by us: and we need to act to protect them from our own greed and recklessness. And it's another great painting, full of character.

Thanks for the kind words Robert jones Sir ...

OWLS OF INDIA-28 PAKHI DEKHUN PAKHI CHINUN # 760.. (Observe the Bird and recognize)... FOREST OWLET .. WATERCOLOUR ...A4....2017...[ From the ref. Photo of INTERNET] ... The Forest Owlet[Athene blewitti ] is a small owl with no ear-tufts. It is also known as the Forest Spotted Owlet or Blewitt's Owl. The forest owlet is an owl that is endemic to the forests of central India. This bird is on the verge of extinction. This species belongs to the typical owls family, Strigidae. After it was described in 1873 and it was not seen after 1884 and considered extinct until it was rediscovered 113 years later in 1997 by Pamela Rasmussen. Searches for the species in the locality given in the label of the last collected specimen failed and it was discovered that the specimen had been stolen from the British Museum by Richard Meinertzhagen and resubmitted with a label bearing false locality information. It is known from a small number of localities and the populations are very low within the fra