Show us your Owls

[Galana]

Moving on...

 

Jungle Owlet. Pench Jungle Camp. 21/12/2015

Can be mistaken for Asian Barred Owlet but smaller.

 

 

[Galana]

I mentioned Asian Barred Owlet last time so here is one for comparison. It is I think the same bird on two different occasions 48 hours apart.

A good guide to Asian Barred Owlet is their habit of splitting the breast feathers like this.

 

There are other differences apart from size as you may see but teh best guide of all must surely be 'location' as Jungle Owlet is unrecorded in NW and NE India whereas the Barred is a native of the Himalayan foothills where this chap was seen near Ramnagar just outside Corbett NP.

 

[offshorebirder]

Great Horned Owl (Bubo virginianus) taking flight.   South Island, South Carolina.

 

 

Edited January 18, 2021 by offshorebirder

[Galana]

Oh good. Another continent in play.

Very nice.

[BRACQUENE]

@offshorebirder

 

Love that Great Horned and of course the way you captured the wings!

[Soukous]

terrific Owl shots Nate ( @offshorebirder)

[Whyone?]

Burrowing Owl's on Marco Island (SW Florida) - surely closely related to Little Owls?

 

 

 

 

 

 

Edited January 19, 2021 by Whyone?

[offshorebirder]

Adult male Eastern Screech-Owl (Megascops asio).   It is a 'gray phase' individual and the father of the fledglings in the videos I previously posted.

 

 

Edited January 20, 2021 by offshorebirder

[Galana]

Back to India for me..

 

Tawny Fish Owl. Dhikala range, Corbett NP.

[PeterHG]

Many beautiful owls have been added again and with quite a few really spectacular photos, too! To keep this thread going, let me add another one, this time from Colombia: a Spectacled Owl.

 

[Soukous]

6 minutes ago, PeterHG said:

let me add another one, this time from Colombia: a Spectacled Owl

 

A beauty. Even more so as I've never seen one.

[Galana]

Wonderful  shot @PeterHG

[BRACQUENE]

Phenomenal in my opinion @PeterHG; makes me think of a formula 1 race driver before the war !

 

[mvecht]

@PeterHGwow!!!

[offshorebirder]

Very nice @PeterHG

[offshorebirder]

Barred Owl (Strix varia) in the Wambaw Swamp Wilderness in South Carolina.  April 6, 2020.

 

 

Edited January 23, 2021 by offshorebirder

[Kitsafari]

dragging you back to Singapore hours!

 

Spotted wood owls - a parent with the inquisitive juvenile

 

 

 

[BRACQUENE]

@offshorebirder@Kitsafari

 

This topic goes from strenght to strenght I think ; thanks for your fantastic contributions! 

[Soukous]

Three more from Botswana...

 

Giant Eagle Owl

 

African Barred Owlet

 

African Scops Owl

[offshorebirder]

African Wood Owls in Arabuko-Sokoke Forest, Kenya.

 

 

Edited January 24, 2021 by offshorebirder

[Athene]

Pel's Fishing Owl in South Luangwa (Luangwa River Camp) in October 2019.

 

[BRACQUENE]

Fantastic picture , in the same league as your "First time Zambia in the suicide season "  @Athene;  thanks a lot !

[Athene]

@BRACQUENE Thanks a lot. I missed this photo first time round and only found it when making a photobook.

[Athene]

Pearl-Spotted Owlet I think :-)  seen near Gomoti Plains Camp in Botswana, August 2017

 

[janzin]

Taken this weekend, Eastern Screech Owl, Long Island, New York