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Columba fasciata. Band-tailed Pigeon. 



Specimens: Two females, 12.9 km SW Prospect, September 15, 1948. 

 The Band-tailed Pigeon is a fairly common migrant in the Mixed 

 Conifer Forest area. The species probably breeds in the county. Band- 

 tailed Pigeons have been reported twice in winter. 



Zenaida macroura. Mourning Dove. 



Specimens: 12.9 km SW Prospect, sex ?, September 11, 1959; 

 Medford, male, June 14, 1970. The Mourning Dove is an abundant 

 permanent resident and breeding species throughout Jackson County 

 in the Chaparral-Oak Community. 



Tyto alba. Barn Owl. 



Specimens: Several from various localities and dates. The Barn Owl 

 is an uncommon permanent resident. The species has been reported 

 only from the Rogue River Valley below Prospect and from Bear 

 Creek Valley, although it probably occurs and breeds elsewhere in 

 the county, 



Otus asio. Screech Owl. 



Specimens: 17.7 km NW Prospect, male. May 10, 1959; 12.9 km SW 

 Prospect, female, January 17, 1952. This owl is a fairly common 

 permanent resident in the Chaparral-Oak Community and Mixed 

 Conifer Forest, but more common in the former in the valley foothills. 

 Gabrielson and Jewett (1940) list a Screech Owl taken at Eagle 

 Point on March 21, 1925. 



Bubo virginianus. Great Horned Owl. 



Specimen: 12.9 km SW Prospect, male, May 3, 1935. This large owl 

 is a common permanent resident occurring throughout most of 

 Jackson County, especially in the margins of the Chaparral-Oak 

 Community and Mixed Conifer Forest. 



Glaucidium gnoma. Pygmy Owl. 



Specimens: Three, 12.9 km SW Prospect, female, November 11, 

 1959; male, November 14, 1951; male, December 7, 1947. This small 

 owl is an uncommon permanent resident in the Mixed Conifer Forest 

 and Chaparral-Oak Community. The Pygmy Owl has been seen in 

 various localities in the Lower Rogue River and Bear Creek valleys 

 as well as on Roxy Ann Peak, and at Oregon Switzerland, Gardner 

 Reservoir, Prospect, and Shady Cove. 



Speotyto cunicularia. Burrowing Owl. 



Photographs : Several, different months, E Medford (DT) ; Hoover's 

 Lakes, May 11, 1963 (JH) ; White City, January 12, 1963 (JH). 

 The Burrowing Owl formerly bred throughout the county in openings 

 of the Chaparral-Oak Community in the Lower Rogue River Valley. 

 The species was a common breeding species in the Medford-White 

 City area during the 1920's and 1930's (Carl Richardson, personal 



