Scops Owl Otus scops

Very rare vagrant from southern Europe

· 1900 One, found in a crofter’s barn, in late April, was ‘captured and kept in confinement, but soon died’. A leg and wing were sent to the NMS by Frank Traill (Clarke, cited in Pennington et al., 2004).

· 1926 A female, on or before the 10^th May, was found dead and sent to the NMS (Greenaway, cited in Pennington et al., 2004).