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funny Eurasian Eagle Owl with copy space

Barn Owl, tyto alba, Adult in flight, Normandy

Tawny Owls are mainly residents with established pairs probably never leaving their territories, and as nocturnal birds,they are more often heard than seen

A little owl in flight landing on a rock with golden background , horizontal shot , Italy

The common owl, bubo bubo, squinted his eye and looks ahead. Portrait. Close-up.

Great grey owl or great gray owl, strix nebulosa.

Close up face of European eagle owl, Big orange eyes and Strong beak.

Daytime front view close-up of a single majestic Eurasian eagle-owl (Bubo Bubo) with spread wings taking off from a bark towards, and looking at, the camera - sky and trees in the background [series 2/3]

Portrait of Tawny owl or brown owl (Strix aluco)

Northern Harrier, circus hudsonius, in Utah.

Tawny owl (Strix aluco), also called the brown owl

$An Owl's daily activity begins with preening, stretching, yawning and combing its head with its claws. The plumage is often ruffled up, and claws and toes are cleaned by nibbling with the beak. The Owl will then leave its roost, sometimes giving a call (especially in breeding season)\n\nLike most owls, the barn owl is nocturnal, relying on its acute sense of hearing when hunting in complete darkness. It often becomes active shortly before dusk and can sometimes be seen during the day when relocating from one roosting site to another. In Britain, on various Pacific Islands and perhaps elsewhere, it sometimes hunts by day. This practice may depend on whether the owl is mobbed by other birds if it emerges in daylight. However, in Britain, some birds continue to hunt by day even when mobbed by such birds as magpies, rooks and black-headed gulls, such diurnal activity possibly occurring when the previous night has been wet making hunting difficult. By contrast, in southern Europe and the tropics, the birds seem to be almost exclusively nocturnal, with the few birds that hunt by day being severely mobbed.\n\nBarn owls are not particularly territorial but have a home range inside which they forage. For males in Scotland this has a radius of about 1 km (0.6 mi) from the nest site and an average size of about 300 hectares. Female home ranges largely coincide with that of their mates. Outside the breeding season, males and females usually roost separately, each one having about three favored sites in which to conceal themselves by day, and which are also visited for short periods during the night. Roosting sites include holes in trees, fissures in cliffs, disused buildings, chimneys and haysheds and are often small in comparison to nesting sites. As the breeding season approaches, the birds move back to the vicinity of the chosen nest to roost.$

Head and face of a tawny owl in close up.

Verreaux's eagle-owl (also called giant eagle owl, lat. Bubo lacteus) is sitting in a dead tree - he is overlooking a small stream in Okavango Delta, Botswana. The giant eagle owl is the largest African owl, measuring up to 66 cm (26 in) in total length.

Eurasian Eagle-Owl (Bubo bubo) in the scrubland in Provence. Tarascon, Arles, Montagnette, Bouches du Rhone, Cote d Azur, France.

Tawney Owl (strix aluco) also known as the brown owl perched on fence

Closed up nocturnal bird in silhouette, adult Brown wood-owl, low angle view, half shot, in the night sitting on the branch of tropical tree in nature of tropical moist montane forest, national park in high mountain of northern Thailand.

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