How many species of owl have you seen (1 Viewer)

Surreybirder · Aug 20, 2017

434 Barn Owl Burnham Norton GB-ENG 02 Feb 1985
435 Indian Scops Owl Bharatpur--Keoladeo Ghana NP IN-RJ 04 Jan 1988
436 European Scops Owl Monte de la Torre, Los Barrios, Farmhouse ES-AN 31 Mar 1985
437 Great Horned Owl Coyote Hills Regional Park--Visitor Center area US-CA 30 Mar 1987
438 Burrowing Owl Palo Alto Baylands US-CA 23 Mar 1987
439 Spotted Owlet Bharatpur--Keoladeo Ghana NP IN-RJ 04 Jan 1988
440 Little Owl Elmley Marshes RSPB Reserve GB-ENG 20 Aug 1983
441 Tawny Owl Monte de la Torre, Los Barrios, Farmhouse ES-AN 05 Apr 1985
442 Barred Owl Robious Landing Park US-VA 09 Apr 2014
443 Long-eared Owl Covehithe GB-ENG 05 Oct 1986
444 Short-eared Owl Elmley Marshes RSPB Reserve GB-ENG 10 Oct 1982
445 Southern Boobook Belair National Park AU-SA 01 Dec 1987
446 Brown Boobook Bharatpur--Keoladeo Ghana NP IN-RJ 04 Jan 1988

So 13 in all (copied from eBird)

lewis20126 · Jan 30, 2018

lewis20126 said:
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So now onto 145 Clements (all seen well). I'm hoping I get a better strike rate in the Phils at the end of the year! Keeping my fingers crossed that the much wanted Eagle Owl shows well..

cheers, alan

Now up to 151 species in Clements (IOC is about 157 I think). The Eagle Owl in Manila showed well! A thin year ahead although Hodgson's Frogmouth could be a new nocturnal in Vietnam and potentially Japanese Scops Owl..in Japan.

cheers, alan

Jeff Hopkins · Jan 31, 2018

Up to 54. Added Amazonian Pygmy-Owl in Brazil in June and Fulvous Owl in Mexico in December.

Targeting Long-whiskered Owlet in June of this year.

birdmeister · Jan 31, 2018

I'm up to three now... Long-eared, Short-eared, and Great Horned. Eastern Screech and Northern Saw-whet are heard only. Surely I'll see an Eastern Screech Owl soon!?

Granted, I don't go owling much at all (yet).

Jacana · Jan 31, 2018

Up to 26 in recent years:

Ural Owl - Sweden
Greyish Eagle-Owl - Côte d'Ivoire

DMW · Jan 31, 2018

lewis20126 said:
Now up to 151 species in Clements (IOC is about 157 I think). The Eagle Owl in Manila showed well! A thin year ahead although Hodgson's Frogmouth could be a new nocturnal in Vietnam and potentially Japanese Scops Owl..in Japan.

cheers, alan

Fantastic shot of a fantastic bird. I'm quite intrigued about the diet of these birds. They look tooled-up to take on some serious prey, but what do these suburban ones eat?

lewis20126 · Jan 31, 2018

DMW said:
Fantastic shot of a fantastic bird. I'm quite intrigued about the diet of these birds. They look tooled-up to take on some serious prey, but what do these suburban ones eat?

I assumed they must be feeding on rats around the picnic site, but I didn't see any rats! They must be quite retiring.

cheers, alan

wintibird · Feb 1, 2018

wintibird said:
56, including 5 heard only. I love them! Latest additions: Sri Lanka Bay Owl and Spot-bellied Eagle Owl, both in Kerala, Southern India.

André

Now up to 82 species (including 8 heard only). Latest addition was a nice Pel's Fishing Owl in Uganda.

André

Larry Sweetland · Feb 1, 2018

wintibird said:
Now up to 82 species (including 8 heard only). Latest addition was a nice Pel's Fishing Owl in Uganda.

André

Wow we're so close Andre! I make mine 85 (including 7 heard only)

Peter C. · Feb 6, 2018

Peter C. said:
Wow! Forgotten to update this thread for quite a while!

24. Spectacled Owl (Costa Rica)

25. Austral Pygmy-owl (Chile)

... and again, have let this list drop off the map (for a truly disturbing number of years!).

26. Little Owl (France)

27. Pearl-spotted Owlet (Namibia)

PC.

birdmeister · Feb 6, 2018

Peter C. said:
... and again, have let this list drop off the map (for a truly disturbing number of years!).

26. Little Owl (France)

27. Pearl-spotted Owlet (Namibia)

PC.

Thanks for the reminder, Peter! I have to add Little Owl to my list of owl species seen, in post #464.

YuShan · Feb 14, 2018

Collared Scops Owl (India)
Snowy Owl (Sweden)
Buffy Fish Owl (Malaysia)
Tawny Owl (UK)
San Isidro Owl (Ecuador)
Ferruginous Pygmy Owl (Mexico)
Asian Barred Owlet (Bangladesh)
Little Owl (UK)
Spotted Owlet (India)
Long-eared Owl (Netherlands)
Short-eared Owl (UK)
Western Barn Owl (UK)
Eastern Barn Owl (India)

Andy Adcock · Feb 14, 2018

Rob Hutchinson said:
Two more recent additions for me;

Barking Owl - On Halmahera, September '08 (never been to Oz! so a welcome addition)
Minahassa Masked Owl - Sulawesi, September '08. A long awaited addition!

Need 17 more to make the 100, expecting Morepork in New Zealand next month and Blakiston's Fish Owl in Japan at Christmas.

Any suggestions on the best countries outside Asia for owls? (numbers or spectacular species........)

Costa Rica, Crested, Black and White, Spectacled plus others, Great Potoo as well.

59 Owls for me.

A

Mysticete · Nov 30, 2022

Mysticete said:
My updated owl list...

17 seen and 2 heard onlys

Well...we resurrected hummers, herons, and shorebirds, might as well update this as well!

My list currently stands at 2 Tytonidae and 22 Strigidae. ABA owls in bold

These include:
American Barn Owl (ABA)
African Grass Owl (Kenya)
Northern Boobook (Japan)
Morepork (NZ)
Powerful Owl (Australia)
Elf Owl (ABA)
Northern Saw-whet Owl (ABA)
Burrowing Owl (ABA)
Little Owl (UK)
Ferruginous Pygmy Owl (Panama)
Short-eared Owl (ABA)
Long-eared Owl (ABA)
Eastern Screech-Owl (ABA)
Choco Screech-Owl (Panama)
Western Screech-Owl (ABA)
Whiskered Screech-Owl (ABA)
Spectacled Owl (Panama)
Tawny Owl (UK)
Ural Owl (Japan)
Barred Owl (ABA)
Blakiston's Fish Owl (Japan)
Verreaux's Eagle-Owl (Kenya)
Great Horned Owl (ABA)
Snowy Owl (ABA)

I live something like 8 hours away from Sax-Zim Bog, so there is really no reason why I shouldn't have Great Gray and Northern Hawk-Owl, other than I hate car birding by myself and I hate cold weather birding, and Sax Zim involves both! Not sure what the next owl is...I could get lucky with either of those two species if I put the effort in or maybe even a Boreal Owl, and failing that I might be able to add a few species in Ecuador this summer. Still need Long-eared Owl for my Wisconsin list, so hopefully pick that up this winter.

Dortmundbirder · Nov 30, 2022

Dortmundbirder said:
I love owls, although my List is sadly not too long. Country where first seen behind the name.
1. Tawny Owl - Germany
2. Little Owl - Germany
3. Barn Owl - Germany
4. Eurasian Eagle Owl - Germany
5. Long eared Owl - Germany
6. Short eared Owl - Germany
7. Eurasian Pygmy Owl - Germany
8. Northern Hawk Owl - Germany
9. Pharaoh Eagle Owl - Egypt
10. Snowy Owl - Netherlands
11. Eurasian Scops Owl - Turkey
12. Collared Scops Owl - Sri Lanka
13. Chestnut backed Owlet - Sri Lanka
14. Pearl-spotted Owlet - South Africa
15. African Barred Owlet - South Africa
16. Spotted Eagle Owl - South Africa
17. Verreaux's Eagle Owl - South Africa
18. African Scops Owl - South Africa
19. Ferruginous Pygmy Owl - Mexico
20. Mottled Owl - Mexico

21 Tropical Screech Owl - Ecuador
22 Foothill Screech Owl - Ecuador
23 Band-bellied Owl - Ecuador
24 Cuban Pygmy Owl - Cuba
25 Black-banded Owl - Ecuador
26 African Wood Owl - Uganda

The list is growing very slowly.

Val35 · Nov 30, 2022

Damn, I didn't see that many, I'm even missing two species in France (Pygmy and Tengmalm's)...
Country is the country where I saw the bird for the first time but I might have seen it later in other places.

1.Little Owl (France)
2.Tawny Owl (France)
3.Eurasian Eagle Owl (France)
4.Short-Eared Owl (France)
5.Long-Eared Owl (Netherlands)
6.Eurasian Scops Owl (France)
7.Barn Owl (France)
8.African Scops Owl (South Africa)
9.Southern White Faced Owl (South Africa)
10.Spotted Eagle Owl (South Africa)
11.Verreaux's Eagle Owl (South Africa)
12.Pearl Spotted Owlet (South Africa)

Welsh Peregrine · Nov 30, 2022

Time to list my seen species
1. Eastern Grass Owl
2. Western Barn Owl
3. Eastern Barn Owl
4. Barking Owl
5. Brown Boobook
6. Ochre-bellied Boobook
7. Halmahera Boobook
8. Speckled Boobook
9. Northern Hawk Owl
10. Eurasian Pygmy Owl
11. Costa Rican Pygmy Owl
12 Ferruginous Pygmy Owl
13. Austral Pygmy Owl
14. Long-whiskered Owlet
15. Burrowing Owl
16. Spotted Owlet
17. Little Owl
18. White-browed Owl
19. Boreal Owl
20. Reddish Scops Owl
21. African Scops Owl
22. Eurasian Scops Owl
23. Pallid Scops Owl
24. Northern Long-eared Owl
25. Madagascan Long-eared Owl
26. Short-eared Owl
27 Marsh Owl
28. Bare-shanked Screech Owl
29. White-throated Screech Owl
30. Tropical Screech Owl
31. Cinnamon Screech Owl
32. Vermiculated Screech Owl
33. Eastern Screech Owl
34. Peruvian Screech Owl
35. Spectacled Owl
36. Brown Wood Owl
37. Tawny Owl
38. Desert Tawny Owl
39. Rufous-legged Owl
40. Ural Owl
41. Great Grey Owl
42. Snowy Owl
43. Great Horned Owl
44. Magellanic Horned Owl
45. Eurasian Eagle Owl
46 Pharoah Eagle Owl
47. Spotted Eagle Owl
48. Greyish Eagle Owl
49. Verreaux’s Eagle Owl
50. Barred Eagle Owl
51. Buffy Fish Owl

Jacana · Nov 30, 2022

Jacana said:
Up to 26 in recent years:

Ural Owl - Sweden
Greyish Eagle-Owl - Côte d'Ivoire

Now on 31

1. Little Owl
2. Tawny Owl
3. Western Barn Owl
4. Great Horned Owl
5. Long-eared Owl
6. Short-eared Owl
7. Asian Barred Owlet
8. White-fronted Scops Owl
9. Brown Boobook
10. Sunda Scops Owl
11. Buffy Fish Owl
12. Collared Owlet
13. Cyprus Scops Owl
14. Cape Eagle-Owl
15. Northern Hawk-Owl
16. Great Grey Owl
17. Eurasian Pygmy Owl
18. Burrowing Owl
19. Tawny-bellied Screech Owl
20. Rufescent Screech Owl
21. Crested Owl
22. Spectacled Owl
23. Foothill Screech Owl
24. Eurasian Eagle-Owl
25. Ural Owl
26. Greyish Eagle-Owl
27. Spotted Owlet
28. Collared Scops Owl
29. Torotoroka Scops Owl
30. White-browed Owl
31. Eurasian Scops Owl

fbeeldens · Nov 30, 2022

List of owls: (44-47 depending upon taxonomic list)

European Barn Owl - Belgium
Long-eared owl - Belgium
Short-eared owl - Belgium
Little Owl - Belgium
Eurasian Pygmy Owl- Belgium
Tawny Owl - Belgium
Northern Hawk Owl - Netherlands
Snowy Owl - Belgium
Eurasian Eagle Owl - Belgium
Spotted Eagle Owl – South Africa
American Barn Owl – Canada
Barred Owl – Canada
Great Horned Owl – Canada
Flammulated Owl – Canada
Whiskered Screech Owl – USA
Elf Owl – USA
Burrowing Owl – USA
Ferruginous Pygmy Owl – Mexico
Black-and-White Owl – Ecuador
Black-Banded Owl (San Isidro Owl)- Ecuador
Band-Bellied Owl - Ecuador
Crested Owl- Ecuador
Rufescent Screech Owl - Ecuador
Tropical Screech Owl - Ecuador
Foothill Screech Owl - Ecuador
Peruvian Pygmy Owl (Pacific Pygmy Owl) – Ecuador
Cloud Forest Pygmy Owl - Ecuador
Stygian Owl - Colombia
Mottled Owl - Colombia
Rufous-Banded Owl - Colombia
Spectacled Owl - Colombia
Andean Pygmy Owl - Colombia
Santa Marta Screech Owl - Colombia
(Colombian Screech Owl – lumped with Rufescent per latest SACC) - Colombia
Tawny-Bellied Screech Owl - Colombia
Koepke’s Screech Owl - Peru
Southern Tawny-Bellied Screech Owl - Peru
Yungas Pygmy Owl - Peru
Austral Pygmy Owl - Argentina
Lesser Horned Owl - Argentina
Hoy’s Screech Owl - Argentina
Tawny-browed Owl - Brazil
Rusty-Barred Owl - Brazil
Long-Tufted Screech Owl - Brazil
Unspotted Saw-whet Owl - Panama
Bare-Shanked Screech Owl - Panama
Choco Screech Owl - Panama

Maffong · Nov 30, 2022

Do heard-onlies (H) count in this thread?
1. Barn Owl
2. Eurasian Scops-Owl
3. Bare-shanked Screech-Owl (H)
4. Tropical Screech-Owl
5. Rufescent Screech-Owl (H)
6. Peruvian Screech-Owl
7. Tawny-bellied Screech-Owl (H)
8. Crested Owl (H)
9. Eurasian Eagle-Owl
10. Northern Hawk-Owl
11. Eurasian Pygmy-Owl
12. Costa Rican Pygmy-Owl
13. Yungas Pygmy-Owl
14. Ferruginous Pygmy-Owl
15. Peruvian Pygmy-Owl
16. Little Owl
17. Burrowing Owl
18. Mottled Owl
19. Black-and-white Owl
20. Tawny Owl
21. Long-eared Owl
22. Short-eared Owl
23. Boreal Owl (very unsatisfactory views)

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