Tyto rosenbergii. Also known as Sulawesi Masked-owl. This Sulawesi endemic appears to be doing fairly well. Its diet consists of rats, shrews and bats. After arriving in Manado we traveled a few hours to a small new lodge called Tangkoko Lodge. We stayed here the first 3 nights. This is at the northeast tip of Sulawesi near the Tangkoko DuaSudara Nature Reserve which is about 20,000 acres. Nature Reserves are the most highly protected nature sites in Indonesia and don’t allow other activities as much. Tangkoko DuaSudara has the highest densities of the spectacular Red-knobbed Hornbill, Crested black macaques (we watched a tribe of over 100 of these monkeys walk by us including many young), and Spectral tarsiers (a ‘gremlin’ like mammal which is one of the world’s smallest primates). When going into the reserves you had to hire an Indonesian guide for every 2 people so we became a group of 6. Our local guides were also the owners of the lodge and were responsible for developing a primitive trail system here and were very adept at finding the local birds such as the very stationary forest kingfishers. The snakes are much harder to come by. This bird was found while we were taking a boat trip nearby. It was in a small cave outside the entrance to a larger cave where it apparently waited for the bats to come out.