Talk:Little owl

synonym with Carine noctua?
I knew that species as C. noctua... is it a synonym? --Extremophile 18:05, 4 September 2006 (UTC)


 * I've never seen it as anything other than Athene, but some old texts seem to have it as Carine. jimfbleak 18:43, 4 September 2006 (UTC)


 * I've noticed that Rodrigues Owl has other genus than Athene, but one of the synonyms is Carine. But also there are lots of results in italian for Carine noctua, so I´ve added it as a synonym... --Extremophile 23:39, 5 September 2006 (UTC)

Note that it was initially described as Strix noctua. --Anshelm &#39;77 (talk) 22:49, 6 April 2010 (UTC)

British Introduction
The article states "was first introduced in 1842 by Thomas Powys". As this blogger points out, Powys (b1833) would only have been 9 years old at the time. In a quick search on Google books most mention "late 19th century". But, as that blog mentions, Yarrell’s ‘A History of British Birds’ (1843) mentions a few records before then. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 217.207.145.188 (talk) 15:49, 27 January 2015 (UTC)