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Hume's Tawny Owl nest The latest issue of Torgos (3: 2 (7)), the journal of the Israel Raptor Information Centre, includes a short paper by Aziz Subah giving the first published details on nesting by Hume's Tawny Owl Strix butleri, based on 73 days' observations in the Negev in 1974. The nest was in an ancient cistern;

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