An Eurasian scops owl visited Mumbai in 2015, the first such sighting in the city in 90 years, according to a research paper by a group of naturalists, biologists and rescuers. The paper has been published in Indian Birds, an ornithology journal.

Six years ago on November 28, a team of rescuers from SARRP NGO comprising Kaushal Dubey, Prabhu Swami and Yogesh Patel had rescued an owl from Mahakali, Andheri East.