The elf owl and the ferruginous pygmy-owl ... There are three species of screech-owls in the United States: eastern in the East, western in the West and whiskered along the southern borders ...
We don’t go far before locating another screech-owl calling ... It isn’t long before we hear a male elf owl calling. We stop and try to pinpoint where the sound is coming from and slowly ...
The goggle-eyed Cuban screech owl gets its other common name, bare-legged owl, from its featherless lower appendages. While most of the world’s more than 200 owl species wear feathers down to ...
The large northwest subspecies max­welliae is the palest and most faintly marked. The western screech owl’s bill is blackish or dark gray at the base, but gray-plumaged individuals are ...