Lanyu Scops Owl with Traditional Canoe SHIRTS

Lanyu Scops Owl with Traditional Canoe Lanyu Scops Owl is a small rufous-brown scops-owl. The facial disc is brown, the lores and line above the eye are white, the facial ruff is cinnamon bordered by dark brown. The ear tufts are rufous with blackish spots. The rest of the upperparts are reddish-brown mottled with buff and dark brown. The throat and breast are dark cinnamon finely streaked with dark brown, mottled with white and brown. The bill is olive-grey, the eyes are yellow, the feet are grayish-brown. The nominate race, Ryukyu Scops-Owl (Elegant Scops-Owl), Otus elegans elegans, occurs on the Ryukyu Islands, southern Japan. The Lanyu Scops Owl, subspecies O. e. botelensis, darker and more finely marked than Japanese birds, is endemic to Lanyu (Orchid) Island, a small 46 square km island, 65 km east of the southern tip of Taiwan. It inhabits subtropical evergreen forest, from sea-level to 550 m or higher. Lanyu Scops Owl is also found near human habitation, sometimes perching on village rooftops. BirdLife International lists Otus elegans as Near threatened because of habitat degradation and loss, pesticide use, and natural disasters. On Lanyu Island, the O. e. botelensis population is thought to be stable, at about 1,000 birds, and its outlook for survival there is good as long as suitable habitat is protected. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Orchid Island (Yami: Ponso no Tao or Pongso no Tao; Chinese: 蘭嶼; pinyin: Lán Yǔ; Pe̍h-ōe-jī: Lân-sū) is a 45 km² high island off the southeastern coast of Taiwan Island and separated from the Batanes of the Philippines by the Bashi Channel of the Luzon Strait. It is governed as Lanyu Township of Taitung County. The island is home to the Tao, an ethnic minority group who migrated to the island from the Batan Archipelago 800 years ago. The island is known to them as Ponso no Tao or Pongso no Tawo "Island of the people" or Irala. Out of a total current population of 4000, approximately 2400 belong to the aboriginal Tao community and the remaining 1600 are mainly Han Chinese. In neighbouring Philippines the island is referred to as Botel Tobago. The Lanyu nuclear waste storage facility was built in 1982. The plant receives nuclear waste from Taiwan's three nuclear power plants operated by state utility Taiwan Power Company (Taipower). About 100,000 barrels of nuclear waste from the nation’s three operational nuclear power plants have been stored at the Lanyu complex. In 2002 and 2012, there were major protests from local residents, calling on Taipower to remove the nuclear waste from the island. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ <Lanyu Traditional canoe> Wooden canoes on the island - which feature a upturned bow and stern pointing up to the sky - are elaborately carved and painted in the Tao tribe's traditional colours of red white and black. They're decorated with intricate, geometrical patterns