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

About 50 thousand:

Oops, you mean species.

In frequency order (N. America)

Snowy Owl (thousands)
Great Horned Owl (a few hundred)
Burrowing Owls (a few hundred)
Long Eared Owls (a few hundred)
Hawk owls (a hundred or so)
Great Grey (hundred)
Short Eared Owl (a couple dozen)
Saw-whets ( fifty)
Northern Pygmy (a dozen)
Boreal (dozen)
Barred Owl (4)
Barn Owl (1)
Western Screech (1)

Still no luck seing a Spotted Owl or Elf Owl but will travel back to the areas and one day will get lucky. I've seen a few owls elsewhere in the world but I usually don't know what they were and when outside of familiar ecologies, I just enjoy the moment.

I' ve seen more Snowy Owls than any other bird of prey except for golden eagles on migration fly overs.
 
cayoncreekman said:
About 50 thousand:

Oops, you mean species.

In frequency order (N. America)

Snowy Owl (thousands)
Great Horned Owl (a few hundred)
Burrowing Owls (a few hundred)
Long Eared Owls (a few hundred)
Hawk owls (a hundred or so)
Great Grey (hundred)
Short Eared Owl (a couple dozen)
Saw-whets ( fifty)
Northern Pygmy (a dozen)
Boreal (dozen)
Barred Owl (4)
Barn Owl (1)
Western Screech (1)

Still no luck seing a Spotted Owl or Elf Owl but will travel back to the areas and one day will get lucky. I've seen a few owls elsewhere in the world but I usually don't know what they were and when outside of familiar ecologies, I just enjoy the moment.

I' ve seen more Snowy Owls than any other bird of prey except for golden eagles on migration fly overs.
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I would say you are very fortunate indeed to have seen so many owls. A lot of birders I know would "give their right arm" to just see any one of those owls above which I have marked in red!

I am going out to southeast Arizona in August and am hoping for a few more species of owl which I do not have on my list yet. Namely, Spotted, Whiskered Screech, Western Screech and maybe a pygmy owl.
 
Larry Lade said:
Yes, it sure sounds like it was the same Boreal Owl we had hoped to see. Did you get it over by the harbor or was it near the Two Harbors High School? We looked in both places for a couple of days but "no joy".

I think your chances are probably pretty good for a Ferruginous Pygmy-Owl in Texas. If you get that you will pass me by one, as I also have 17 species of owl.
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Hi Larry,

It was near the high school, in a grove of pines between the school and a residential area to the south. It was just sleeping in a tree about 15 feet off the ground. Birders who had seen it earlier marked the spot with a little pile of snowballs.

Dave
 
Barn
Short Eared
Lond Eared
Tawny
Tengmalms
Pygmy
Eagle
Hawk
Great Grey
Ural
Scops
Little

Helps being half finnish for the 'northern' ones.....
 
Barn Owl
Tawny Owl
Little Owl
Long eared Owl
Short eared Owl
Eurasian EagleOwl
Snowy Owl
Humes Tawny Owl
Barred Owl
Great Horned Owl
Eastern screech Owl
Western Screech Owl
Elf Owl
Burrowing Owl
Veraux eagle Owl
Spotted Eagle Owl
Pearl Spotted Owl
Sokoke Scops Owl
African Scops Owl
Nineteen and counting Sokoke Scops Owl, and Humes Tawny Owl Must be my rarest.
 
Managed to add another 2 species so far this year, both in the Philippines;
1. A fantastic Philippine Eagle Owl in daylight at Subic Bay
2. nigrorum Philippine Scops Owl at Kanlaon, surely an odds on split

Rob

Rob Hutchinson said:
Barn Owl
Eastern Grass Owl
Sulawesi Masked Owl
Bay Owl (the best...?)
Reddish Scops Owl
White-fronted Scops Owl
Mountain Scops Owl
Javan Scops Owl
Mindanao Scops Owl
Luzon Scops Owl
Mindoro Scops Owl
Flores Scops Owl
Common Scops Owl
Oriental Scops Owl (probably 2 sp. on vocalisations but i've only seen the one in China)
Elegant Scops Owl (2 species..?)
Mantanani Scops Owl
Moluccan Scops Owl
Sangihe Scops Owl
Sulawesi Scops Owl
Rajah Scops Owl
Sunda Scops Owl
Collared Scops Owl
Philippine Scops Owl
Palawan Scops Owl
Wallace’s Scops Owl
Giant Scops Owl
Great Horned Owl
Eurasian Eagle Owl
Pharaoh Eagle Owl
Barred Eagle Owl
Spot-bellied Eagle Owl
Buffy Fish Owl
Brown Fish Owl
Snowy Owl
Spotted Wood Owl
Sichuan Wood Owl
Tawny Owl
Chinese Tawny Owl
Hume’s Owl
Brown Wood Owl
Bartels’ Wood Owl
Collared Owlet
Jungle Owlet
Asian Barred Owlet
Javan Owlet
Little Owl
Spotted Owlet
Sumba Boobook (brilliant)
Little Sumba Boobook
Southern Boobook
Brown Boobook
Northern Boobook
Chocolate Boobook
Philippine Boobook (again probably 4? sp., i've only seen one)
Mindoro Boobook
Ochre-bellied Boobook
Speckled Boobook
Moluccan Boobook
Cinnabar Boobook
Long-eared Owl
Short-eared Owl

Also 6+ species of Frogmouth - Ceylon, Goulds, Javan (at least 2 sp...?), Palawan, Sunda Pale-headed & Large plus Moluccan Owlet Nightjar
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Managed 9 species so far:

Barn
Tawny
Little
Long-eared
Short-eared
Eagle
Ural
Scops
Pygmy

Am going to Finland in June though so should hopefully pick up Tengmalms, Hawk and Great Grey! Will keep you posted!
 
Heard three different Owl species calling Sat night;
Boreal Owl
Northern Saw-whet Owl
Barred Owl

Unfortunately no views - the first two would be lifers!
 
Nightjar61 said:
My owl list stands at 17. I should be able to see Little Owl in Tunisia in March, and am hoping to get Ferruginous Pygmy-Owl in southern Texas this summer.

Barn Owl
Eastern Screech-Owl
Whiskered Screech-Owl
Great Horned Owl
Snowy Owl
Spotted Owl
Barred Owl
Great Gray Owl
Northern Hawk Owl
Mountain Pygmy-Owl
Northern Pygmy-Owl
Elf Owl
Burrowing Owl
Boreal Owl
Northern Saw-whet Owl
Long-eared Owl
Short-eared Owl

Dave
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My owl list now stands at 18: Little Owl

Dave
 
Snowy owl:Jones Beach state Park, NY
Great Horned owl:Rocky mountain NP, CO
Barred owl:Sugarbush, VT
Eastern Screech owl:Connetquot(can't spell) state Park, NY (heard)
Great Gray owl:Cody, WY (just outside of Yellowstone)
 
Ookpik said:
The sky has been white with Snowy Owls this last couple days. Spring!!!
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In the mid 1980's we were retrofitting an emergency airstrip in Snare Lake about 300 kms north of Yellowknife. It was an irruption year for Snowies and the owls were returning and moving through us in the hundreds a day for a couple weeks. They'd land on anything with just a bit of height above the airstrip...from a tool box to an oil drum. The male snowies actually seem whiter than the snow and they stick out like bright lights as far as the eye could see. Most of the other birds that come through (a month or 2 later) are 'up' in the sky but the Snowy Owls were flying through a few feet off the ground and startled me a couple times.
 
Hmmm...I have to think about this one.

Eastern Screech-owl
Barred Owl
Great Horned Owl
Short Eared Owl
Long Eared Owl
Northern Saw-whet Owl
Burrowing Owl
Snowy Owl

I think that's it...
 
I can now update posts #53 and #58, as I have seen my fifth owl in New York's Central Park: an Eastern screech owl. It was snoozing on a piece of limb which had sheared, providing an almost horizontal perch. This owl has been around the area across the Lake from the Bethesda Fountain for some time.

Happy bird watching,
Arthur :scribe:
 

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