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[[Image:Barred_Owl.jpg|thumb|550px|right|Photo by {{user|David+Roach|David Roach}} <br />Location: [[Corkscrew Swamp Sanctuary]], [[Florida]]]] | [[Image:Barred_Owl.jpg|thumb|550px|right|Photo by {{user|David+Roach|David Roach}} <br />Location: [[Corkscrew Swamp Sanctuary]], [[Florida]]]] | ||
| − | [[Image:Barred_Owl_Fledging_25May07.jpg|thumb|350px|right|Fledgling <br />Photo by {{user|GaryT|GaryT}} <br />Location: Hills Creek State Park, Tioga Country, [[ | + | [[Image:Barred_Owl_Fledging_25May07.jpg|thumb|350px|right|Fledgling <br />Photo by {{user|GaryT|GaryT}} <br />Location: Hills Creek State Park, Tioga Country, [[Pennsylvania]] May 2007]] |
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Revision as of 00:56, 24 June 2009
- Strix varia
Identification
44 cm. Adult shows pale face, dark rings around the eyes, yellow beak, brown eyes, no ear tufts, upper parts mottled grey-brown, light underparts with dark markings which are mainly vertical, legs and feet covered in feathers up to the talons. Fledglings are downy like in most owls; older fledglings shows horizontal markings on breast, opposite of what is shown in adults.
Distribution
Resident from Minnesota south to eastern Texas and east to New Brunswick and Nova Scotia south to Florida. Also in central Canada west to British Columbia and in northern Washington and Idaho.
Taxonomy
Polytypic. Consists of four subspecies.
Habitat
Forests or suburban areas.
Behaviour
They nest in a tree cavity; 2 to 4 eggs are laid and incubated by the female for about 4 weeks. The young fledge after a further four to five weeks.
The diet includes mainly mice, but also rabbits, chipmunks, foxes, opossums, birds such as grouse and doves.
Vocalisation
A series of deep hoots that sound very similar to Who cooks for you? Who cooks for you, all?
Young birds give a loud shrieking
