sheoaks, turpentine, acacias, paperbarks, and rainforest trees. Common roost sites are sheltered groves of mid-storey trees, e.g. It often roosts and nests in dense gully eucalypt forest. The Powerful Owl inhabits eucalypt forests and woodlands, gallery rainforest and inland riverine woodland. Juveniles are initially much whiter and downier on the head and underparts. It has prominent yellow-orange eyes in a flat face and fully feathered legs with large yellow feet. It is brown dorsally, with narrow white barring, and white ventrally, with coarse V-shaped bars (chevrons). The Powerful Owl is a very large (50-60 cm in length) brown hawk-like owl, with (for an owl) a rather small head and a long tail. As top order carnivores, they may also play an important role in the functioning of forest ecosystems and may act as indicators for other hollow-dependent and specialised species. The owls are of great scientific and community interest as flagship species for the conservation and management of mature forest ecosystems. They are unique to the Australasian region and represent ancient elements of our fauna. The large forest owls - the Powerful Owl, Masked Owl and Sooty Owl - are each listed as Vulnerable under Schedule 2 of the NSW Threatened Species Conservation Act 1995.

Of the hawk owls, the Powerful is found mostly in forested land, the Barking on woodland edges and around wetlands and the Southern Boobook in towns and open farmlands. There are three species of Tytonidae: Masked, Sooty and Barn, the first two are forest owls, the latter is more at home in open land and around farmsteads. Much of the NSW South Coast is still heavily forested and hosts several owl species.

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