The Painted Desert The Painted Desert The Painted Desert is a 1931 American pre-Code film released by Pathé Exchange. Produced by E. B. Derr, it was directed by Howard Higgin, who also co-wrote the screenplay with Tom Buckingham. It starred low-budget Western stars William Boyd (in his pre-Hopalong Cassidy days) and Helen Twelvetrees, and featured a young Clark Gable in his talking film debut. The picture was shot mostly on location in Arizona. Two cowboy friends, Jeff (J. Farrell MacDonald) and Cash (William Farnum), are traveling through the desert in the southwest U.S., when they come upon a baby who has been abandoned
Desert owl demonstrated that the holotype of "S. butleri" was not actually a member of this species, but was instead most likely an Omani owl (which had been described as a new species, "S. omanensis", in 2013). Because the allocation of "Strix butleri" to the Omani owl left the more widespread species without a name, the authors of the study named it "S. hadorami" after Israeli ornithologist Hadoram Shirihai, and gave it the new common name desert tawny owl (which has been subsequently shortened to desert owl by some authors). Desert owl The desert owl or desert tawny owl ("Strix hadorami"), formerly