Screech-Owl
The screech-owl is probably one of America's favorite owls. You can even attract them with an owl house. Learn how to attract the screech-owl to your yard, and listen to its song.
Photo: Roland Jordahl ...
Cuban Screech-owl (Otus lawrencii)
(aka Bare-legged Owl, Gymnoglaux lawrencii)
The Cuban Screech-owl is endemic to Cuba where it is found in forest and wooded areas with palms.
Balsas Screech-Owl
A Reference for North and Central American Owls
The Balsas Screech-Owl is a very large and striking Screech-Owl with brown eyes (iris).
Eastern Screech-Owl (Megascops asio)
Description The screech owl is a small nocturnal owl with piercing yellow eyes and prominent ear tufts. Nestlings are covered with fluffy white down.
Western Screech-Owl
Western Screech-Owl (Otus kennicottii)
Tecolote occidental - en Espaņol
The scientific name commemorates the American naturalist Robert Kennicott.
Species Code: OTKE ...
Eastern screech-owl Otus asio
Identification Tips:
Length: 8? inches Wingspan: 22? inches
Small, nocturnal, predatory bird
Large, rounded head with ear tufts
Yellow eyes
Dense streaking on underparts with finer barring ...
The Eastern Screech-Owl (Otus asio) occurs across most of the eastern United States southward through the eastern half of Texas into northeast Mexico.
Western Screech-Owl Behaviour
No observations regarding Western Screech-Owl behavior have been submitted to the database yet.
Interesting Facts about Western Screech-Owls ...
Puerto Rican Screech-Owl Megascops nudipes
Described by: Daudin (1800)
Alternate common name(s): Puerto Rican Screech Owl, Puerto Rican Bare-legged Owl, Virgin Islands Screech-Owl, Newton's Owl
Old scientific name(s): Otus nudipes ...
Eastern Screech-Owl
(Megascops asio)
Status: Year-round Resident.
Last recorded on site in 2010
The Patuxent web-site provides more general information about this species.
Similar to Eastern Screech-Owl: Courtship on perch: male bows, raises wings, snaps bill, blinks at female and approaches; male brings food to female, lays it before her, with much hopping and bowing. Established pair mutually preen, also duet.
SCREECH-OWL.
Bill short, compressed, deep, strong; upper mandible with is dorsal outline straight to the end of the cere, then curved, the sides nearly flat and erect, the tip deflected, with a rounded but sharp-edged point; ...
Eastern Screech-Owl (Otus asio)
Great Horned Owl (Bubo virginianus)
Northern Saw-whet Owl (Aegolius acadicus) ...
Screech-owls breed in late winter or early spring and choose a hollow stump or old woodpecker hole as a nest site. Sometimes they will accept specially designed owl boxes, especially when the bottom is covered with sawdust.
Eastern Screech-Owl Otus asio. Breeder. Common in all seasons and regions. Found in woodlands, especially near open areas, and orchards. MODERATE CONSERVATION CONCERN.
8. Western Screech-owl, in the SF Zoo
9. Burrowing Owl, in the wild, Merrie Way, SF
From Portola Valley, California: ...
109 Hawthorn 110 Black oak SRM (RANGELAND) COVER TYPES : 810 Longleaf pine-turkey oak hills 811 South Florida flatwoods 812 North Florida flatwoods 813 Cutthroat seeps 820 Everglades flatwoods PLANT COMMUNITIES : The eastern screech-owl ...
Western Screech-Owl, Megascops kennicottii
Eastern Screech-Owl, Megascops asio
Whiskered Screech-Owl, Megascops trichopsis
Great Horned Owl, Bubo virginianus
Snowy Owl, Bubo scandiacus
Northern Hawk Owl, Surnia ulula ...
A brightly colored relative of North American screech-owls, the Flammulated Owl is more often heard "cooing" than it is seen.
These birds include Baltimore orioles, wood ducks, barred owls, black-crowned night-herons, red-shouldered hawks, red-tailed hawks, Cooper’s hawks, screech-owls, ruby-throated hummingbirds, downy woodpeckers, pileated woodpeckers, ...
The latter name, however, more correctly applies to a different group of birds, the screech-owls in the genus Megascops. The barn owl's scientific name, established by G.A.
 See also: Woodpecker, Eagle, Heron, Burro, Flammulated owl
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