On 1 August 2008 Bond found the carcass of an unidentified owl at Sirius Point, Kiska Island, in the Rat Island group of the Aleutian Islands, Alaska (52° 08′ N, 177° 36′ E, Figure 1), in Glen Larry canyon between two lava flows. Within that canyon, dead birds (mostly auklets, Aethia spp.) had been found frequently in a low area, possibly because of CO or CO₂ gas seeping from the more recent lava flow. The owl carcass was photographed in camp (Figures 2 and 3), but it was in poor condition and was not preserved. Some time later, upon returning from the field, Jones examined the photographs and identified the carcass as that of a Brown Hawk-Owl (Ninox scutulata).