Owl, yes but? (1 Viewer)

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blev80

Member

• May 23, 2014

• #1

Hi,

Poor pictures of this young owl taken yesterday morning and evening?
The recording was made last night.

Do you have an idea?

Thanks

Bruno

 

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chris butterworth

aka The Person Named Above

• May 23, 2014

• #2

Tawny Owl Strix aluco.

 

tconzemi

Tom

Supporter

• May 23, 2014

• #3

Long eared owl

 

Nutcracker

Stop Brexit!

• May 23, 2014

• #4

Ditto to Long-eared Owl Asio otus. It has ear tufts (just starting to develop), which Tawny doesn't have.

 

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Sancho

Well-known member

• May 23, 2014

• #5

Very cute LEO baby. We get them round here a later in the summer. Amazing thing is they can fly from tree-to-tree long before they develop adult-sized wings. Very distinctive feeding-call too. Lovely photos!

 

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blev80

Member

• May 24, 2014

• #6

Thank you all.
By forcing the post-treatment on some photos, we guess yellow iris, which confirms the long-eared owl, no?

 

Jamie Dunning

Well-known member

• May 24, 2014

• #7

The iris colour can be tricky because depending on who you speak to definitions of a solid colour change and there is minor variation. Adult LEO generally show an Orange eye, whilst SEO show Yellow. However, I've found with juveniles that this doesn't always fit.

I would agree with everyone above that this is a juvenile LEO, although I wouldn't be making this ID on its eye-colour.

 

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blev80

Member

• May 24, 2014

• #8

Thank you. As the first identification was the tawny owl, I was talking about eye color to the difference between the tawny owl and long-eared owl, not to identify with certainty the bird.

 

Jamie Dunning

Well-known member

• May 24, 2014

• #9

in which case the size and shape, the facial disc and the ear tufts are the ID features you could use.

 

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blev80

Member

• May 24, 2014

• #10

Thank you so much for these information.

 

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Rotherbirder

Well-known member

• May 24, 2014

• #11

Wholly dark facial disc & vestigial ear-tufts = Long-eared.