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calls could not be heard by a human at 225 m with 
4 nn aSSU 7 ,i ? n anowl could hear it ttt 
4 nn m P ayback lnaJ was conducted every 
400 m along n ~2-kra transect at each site 
followed by a I-min silent period. This was 
repeated in each cardinal direction a elh 
amplmg pom,. We only performed playbacks a. 
four points in one small woodlot because of sire 
transect."I'' h “ d P°<"“ P- 
An Eastern Screech-Owl responded to our 
playbacks a. each of our two sites a. Beaver 
Cieek State Park, a location known for them. 
Playback surveys at Berlin Center. 39 km from 
Beaver Creek State Park, detected a probable 
le.sponse and. given the park managers claim of an 
active nest and injured Eastern Screech-Owls 
have recently been submitted to Birds in Right 
■Sanctuary, a local raptor rehabilitation center 
(Heather Merritt, pers. comm.), we deemed this 
area as having them. No screech-owls were 
detected at any other site during our surveys; we 
considered them as not present and these find¬ 
ings corroborate Peterjohn (2001), the unpublished 
