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The Eurasian eagle-owl wild bird (Bubo bubo) is a species of eagle-owl that resides in much of Eurasia.

Short-eared Owl (Asio flammeus) - nocturnal bird

Close-up of an Eurasian eagle-owl yawning

Morepork feeds on insects and small mammals. Commonly found in New Zealand's forests and woodlands.

barred owl flying down to catch a mouse, Richmond, BC, Canada

The Indian Eagle-Owl (Bubo bengalensis), also widely known as the Bengal Eagle-Owl or Rock Eagle-Owl.

Red-shouldered hawk is looking for a prey in his natural environment.

Barred owl sitting on a fallen trip, searching for food.

Powerful Eagle Owl about to launch from it's perch

great grey owl in flight during golden hour

It measures around 37 to 51.4 cm (male) and 39 to 54.4 cm (female). It weighs from 405 to 562 g (male) and from 331 to 670 g (female). It has a brown facial disk, white eyebrows around the beak. Dark brown back and tail with white transverse bands. It has a wide collar of the same color and the belly is yellowish in color (giving rise to its common name).

$L 59-73cm, WS 138-170cm.\nResident in mountains an forests, preferring areas with rocks, steep cliffs and mature trees (preferably conifers); often in rocky archipelagos. Scattered distribution, generally rare and local.\nNocturnal and partly crepuscular. Day roost in dense mature spruces or firs, or in cave or crevice.\nFood mammals (voles, rats, hedgehogs, hares) and birds (corvids, gulls, wildfowl).\nNests on inaccessible cliff-edge or less often on the ground by rock, uprooted tree or among boulders, exceptionally in abandoned raptor’s nest or n barn, abandoned factory, etc.\nIn spite of its size and its impressive claws is by and large a non-violent and retiring owl near its nest, and aggressive behaviour toward humans is rare.\n\nThis is a scarce owl in the eastern and Southern part of the Netherlands and is mostly breeding in abandoned Quarries.\n\nThis Picture is made at a Birds of Prey Farm near Lunteren (Gelderland, the Netherlands).$

Male Eurasian pygmy owl (Glaucidium passerinum) perching on a deciduous tree.

Barred owl (Strix varia) in the South Fork Rock Creek watershed, Siuslaw National Forest, Oregon. Photographed during a barred owl survey with US Geological Survey wildlife biologist Dave Simon, betwen 7pm and 12:30 am, June 30 - July 1, 2016.

Northern Harrier (Circus cyaneus) flying over a marsh in search of prey. Delta, B.C., Canada

Portrait of a ferruginous hawk with black background

Blakiston's fish owl (Ketupa blakistoni) fishing at night Hokkaido Japan

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