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Eastern Screech-Owl
Red morph - something of a rarity in this part of Ontario (all my previous sightings have been Grey morph). Found during my 2023 fall visit and showed (sometimes with a Grey morph bird) well off and on during the day and evening becoming a very well watched bird by birders, photographers and...- C B Allen
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- Category: North America
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Eastern Screech-Owl
Appearing to scowl disapprovingly, this is a gray morph adult roosting very high near the boardwalk.- jmorlan
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- Category: North America
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Eastern Screech-Owl
We returned to the boardwalk where we found this recently fledged juvenile Eastern Screech-Owl. Note the wispy down feathers attached to the tips of contour feathers giving this bird a decidedly fluffy appearance. Also the well barred pattern of the underparts is typical of juveniles. The two...- jmorlan
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- Category: North America
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Eastern Screech-Owl
This small widespread owl occurs in two distinct color morphs. The most common is gray but some such as this are reddish in color. This is the first red morph screech-owl that I have seen. This is the nominate race "M. a. asio" in which about a third of the adults are red morph. Formerly...- jmorlan
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- Category: North America
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Eastern Screech Owl, Red Morph.- Hughv
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Eastern screech owl
Another little camouflaged bird that isn't always easy to spot...such a tiny little owl, so always fun and lucky to find one to photograph!- Zackiedawg
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- Category: North America
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Eastern Screech Owl
This bird fledged on the same day or the day after. It looks gray, but as far as we were told by Steve (Hamhed) the parents seemed to be red phase both of them- njlarsen
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- juvenile megascops asio north carolina usa weaverville
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- Category: North America
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Second owl in a week
Up until last week, after 10 years of maintaining a photo life list, I only had 4 owls of which 3 were poor quality images. Now in the space of a week I have added two more. A barred owl, which I posted last week, and now a screech owl. This one was high up in a tree with a broken trunk and a...- Paul Tavares
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- Category: North America
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Eastern Screech-Owl
Thanks to a birder I met, I finally got this species on the list and in the camera.- njlarsen
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- Category: North America
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Eastern Screech Owl
Reddish Phase of the Eastern Screech Owl (Megascops asio) Photographed in Hagerman National Wildllife Refuge. Southwest of Pottsboro in Grayson County, Texas, just south of the Oklahoma border. Bottomland hardwood forest at ca. 58 m (190 ft) elevation. The owl is perched in a black willow...- Stanley Jones
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- Category: North America