and natural digestion etc kanwal s singh told toibirds not particular to a region are infrequently discovered outside their known ranges due to a variety of reasons such as vagrancy migration arising from climate change or habitat suitability or simply blown off their paths by severe weather disturbances however the owl found at the golf club is evidence of a nesting pair and not a classic vagrant or mistaken wanderer this species is otherwise endemic to the indian subcontinent including marginally to pakistan though widely distributed through central and peninsular india the closest records of the mottled wood owl to chandigarh are from bharatpur rajasthan in 1984 by raghupatty kannan and dudhwa national park in 1990 by louis warren