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THE SUBSPECIES of the NORTHERN SAW-WHET OWL on the QUEEN CHARLOTTE ISLANDS: an ISLAND ENDEMIC and a NONBRING Visrrant

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THE SUBSPECIES of the NORTHERN SAW-WHET OWL on the QUEEN CHARLOTTE ISLANDS: an ISLAND ENDEMIC and a NONBRING Visrrant THE SUBSPECIES OF THE NORTHERN SAW-WHET OWL ON THE QUEEN CHARLOTTE ISLANDS: AN ISLAND ENDEMIC AND A NONBRING vISrrANT SPENCER G. SEALY, Departmentof Zoology,University of Manitoba,Winnipeg, Manitoba R3T 2N2, Canada Two stronglydifferentiated subspecies of the Northern Saw-whet Owl (Aegoliusacadicus) are recognizedby the AmericanOrnithologists' Union (1957), A. a. brooksi, restrictedto the Queen Charlotte Islands(known also as Haida Gwaii), British Columbia, and nominate acadicus, widespread elsewhere in North America. I examinedspecimen and photographicrecords of the subspeciesof the Northern Saw-whet Owl from the Queen Charlotte Islandsand nearby BritishColumbia and Alaskato determinethe extentof the rangeof brooksi and determine the seasonaldistribution of nominate acadicus on the Queen Charlotte Islands.Records of acadicus on the Queen Charlotte Islandshave not been compiled,and the inter-islanddistribution of brooksihas not been ascertained.Godfrey (1986:328) stated that Northern Saw-whet Owls (presumablybrooksi) occur in "the northernQueen CharlotteIslands," but the entire archipelagowas shadedon his rangemap. Cowan (1989) stated that brooksiis foundonly on Grahamand Moresbyislands, the two largest islandsof the archipelago. The Queen CharlotteIslands comprise the most isolatedarchipelago off the Pacificcoast of Canada.The islandsare separatedfrom the mainlandof British Columbiaby about 80 km and from the nearestAlaska islands, Forresterand Dall, by about70 km and 50 km, respectively.The isolationof the Queen CharlotteIslands is reflectedin their beingthe home of several endemic subspecies,some stronglydifferentiated. Seven have been de- scribedso far: in addition to A. a. brooksi, ?icoides villosus picoideus (Osgood,1901)(Hairy Woodpecker), Cyanocitta stelleri carlottae Osgood, 1901 (Steller'sJay), Certhia familiaris stewar.tiWebster, 1986 (Brown Creeper),Catharus ustulatusphillipsi Ramos,1991 (Swainson'sThrush), Ixoreus naevius carlotte (Phillips, 1991) (Varied Thrush), and Pinicola enucleatorcarlottae Brooks,1922 (PineGrosbeak). Individuals of someof thesedisperse or migrateto a greateror lesserextent to the mainlandin the winter. Severalother distinctivesubspecies occur on the islandsas well as elsewhere in the humid Pacific Northwest. TREATMENT OF RECORDS I sought specimensthrough correspondencewith many museumsin North America and England (see Acknowledgments).I assembled217 specimens:90 were from the Queen CharlotteIslands (84 of brooski,6 of acadicus)and 127 were referencespecimens of nominateacadicus taken in Alaskaand elsewherein BritishColumbia. Documentation of breedingof nominateacadicus in nearbyAlaska is confirmedby specimensof a juvenile Western Birds 29:21-28, 1998 21 THE SUBSPECIES OF THE NORTHERN SAW-WHET OWL (MVZ 24409) and incubatingfemale (USNM 241692) taken on Forrester Island.I examinedall specimensexcept for 13 from Alaska(12 identifiedby D. D. Gibson,one by R. C. Banks).Three records from the QueenCharlotte Islands(two of brooksi that were capturedand releasedand one privately held specimenof acadicus)were confirmedfrom photographsdeposited in the Royal BritishColumbia Museum Photo-Duplicate File. The subspeciesare separablein the field (Figures1 and 2). but, unfortu- nately, field observershave not noted the subspecieswhen reporting sightings.probably because they are not aware that acadicusoccurs on the Queen CharlotteIslands in some seasons.I usedsight records,therefore, onlywhen they provideddocumentation of occurrenceon the smallislands of the archipelago.I assumedthese sightings were all of brooksi;they were madeprimarily by seabirdbiologists between April and Junewhen acadicus is not presenton the Queen CharlotteIslands (see later). Sight recordsof Northern Saw-whet Owls in winter on the Queen Charlotte Islands(e.g., Hamel 1983). a time when acadicus has been recorded there, were not included. A. a. brooksi differs strikinglyfrom acadicus in its darker coloration, particularlyon the breas!and facial disk (Figures1 and 2). Everywhere acadicusis white, brooksiis buff(Tawny Olive, Smithe 1975-1981). All of the brownsare muchdeeper and richer in brooksithan in acadicus.Should brooksi occur off the Queen Charlotte Islands, therefore, it should be recognizedreadily. No intergradesbetween the two subspecieshave been Figure 1. Northern Saw-whetOwl (Aegoliusacadicus brooksi) on Langara Island, Queen CharlotteIslands, British Columbia, 5 April 1971. Photo by Spencer O. Sealy 22 THE SUBSPECIES OF THE NORTHERN SAW-WHET OWL Figure2. NorthernSaw-whet Owls. From left to right,A. a. brooksi(CMN 14053), male,Masset, Queen Charlotte Islands, 5 July1919: A. a. brooksi(QCIM 8.1), male, 15 km south of Tlell, Queen Charlotte Islands, December 1978: A. a. acadicus (RBCM 15015), male, Peachland, British Columbia, 7 November 1952: A. a. acadicus (RBCM 13014), male, Metville, British Columbia, 6 November 1953. identified. Females are larger than males in both subspecies,and the subspeciesare aboutthe same size (Cannings1993). STATUS ON THE QUEEN CHARLOTTE ISLANDS Graham and MoresbyIslands I examined 84 specimensof brooksi and two photographs(RBCM Photos 1208. 1209) of live brooksi from the Queen Charlotte Islands.All but one of these recordsare from Graham and Moresbyislands. Most individualsin basicplumage were taken from Septemberto March, whereas those in juvenalplumage were collectedbetween late June and September (Figure3). The subspeciesbrooksi was named and describedby Fleming (1916) on the basisof three adultfemales and one juvenile,all takenin 1915 on Graham Island.No specimenshave been taken off the Queen Charlotte Islands.All subsequentspecimens of this subspeciestaken since1915 were collectedon the two largest islands,Graham and Moresby. This is not surprisingbecause most of the human populationon the islandsis centered 23 THE SUBSPECIES OF THE NORTHERN SAW-WHET OWL ß brooksi,adults (n = 60) [] brooksi,juveniles (n = 18) • 8 Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec Figure3. Monthlydistribution of datesof specimensand photographs of Northern Saw-whetOwls (A. a. brooksi)taken on the Queen Charlotte Islands.Three newly fledgedjuveniles taken by Patch(1922) from eachof two broodson 5 and 21 July 1919 are consideredas singlerecords. there,so specimens are morelikely to be salvagedthere, and the earlyefforts by ornithologiststo collectSaw-whet Owls were concentratedon thesetwo islands. Records from some of the smaller islands have been made since 1965 and are predominantlysightings made during censuses and studiesof nestingAncient Murrelets (Syn thliboramph us an tiquus). In addition,five specimens(2 females,3 males,all first-year)and one photograph(RBCM Photo 1207) of nominateacadicus have been obtained on Grahamor Moresbyisland. One of these,ironically, is the firstspecimen of a Northern Saw-whetOwl from the Queen CharlotteIslands, a male taken on 12 December1896 (not 19 December,see Deignan 1961) at Massetby Rev. J. H. Keen. On the basis of this single (type) specimen(USNM 168171), Osgood(1901) describeda new subspecies,scotaea. Ridgway (1914) and subsequentauthors treated scotaea as a synonymof nominate acadicus;it remainedfor Fleming(1916) to describethe endemicsubspe- ciescorrectly. The five other records of acadicus from the Queen Charlotte Islandsfall between12 Octoberand 11 January:male (AMNH 754293), 11 January 1915; unsexed(RBCM Photo 1207), January1965, Sandspit;male (UMZM 959), 10 November 1978, Sandspit;female (QCIM 60), December 1979; and female (QCIM B-190), 12 October 1984, Tlell. The period in which these specimenswere collectedis outsidethe breedingseason of both brooksiand acadicusby severalweeks, judging from the datesof recordsof juveniles(Figure 3). Therefore,mainland Saw-whet Owls occasionally reach the Queen CharlotteIslands during post-breeding movements or migration (Brooksand Swarth 1925). Specimenscollected on the BeringSea islands of St. Lawrence and St. Paul in October and November (Kesseland Gibson 1978) demonstrateeven more extremevagrancy of this subspecies. VagrantNorthern Saw-whetOwls are known to crosswide expansesof openocean elsewhere (e.g. Sladen 1966, DeSanteand Ainley 1980, Soucy 24 THE SUBSPECIES OF THE NORTHERN SAW-WHET OWL 1982, Amos 1991). Stable-isotopeanalysis of tissuesderived from 16 specimensof brooksiand two of acadicusfrom the QueenCharlotte Islands revealedthat the diet of acadicusshowed little marine protein compared withthat of brooksi.These results suggest that individuals of acadicusdo not remain long on the islands(Hobson and Sealy 1991). The origin of individualsof acadicus on the Queen Charlotte Islands should not be assumedto be from nearby sourcepopulations (see DeSante and Ainley 1980). Small Islands Northern Saw-whetOwls, assumedto be brooksi, have been seenor mist- nettedon four smallislands and one islandgroup of the QueenCharlotte Islands,from LangaraIsland in the north to KunghitIsland in the south (Figure4). I could not locate one specimentaken on Langara Island (Campbell1969). These recordsadd the followingislands to the species' knownrange on the QueenCharlotte Islands: Limestone, Reef, Lyell, and Kunghit.Additional investigations likely will reveal Saw-whet Owls on other islandsof the archipelagoas well. LangaraIsland.--Noting that the callnotes of brooksiare quitedifferent from those of acadicus,Darcus (1930) statedthat in 1927 he saw brooksi by day in the densewoods on Langaraand Grahamislands and heardit at night. Campbell(1969) consideredSaw-whet Owls to be commonon the grassymeadows at Dadens, and his party collectedone
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