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

[lewis20126]

Now 112 - Mottled Wood Owl - India March; Papuan Boobook PNG July

Cheers
alan

Now 114 - Palawan Scops Owl & Mantanani Scops Owl - both added in Palawan unsurprisingly! December 2008. Photos on surfbirds when I get back.

cheers, alan

 

[lewis20126]

Rob - BTW I spotlighted a Boobook on Palawan at dusk (roadside Lion Cave Track) and heard one calling nearby. I'll be whacking that on when you do a paper splitting all the Philippine Ninox up!!
cheers, alan

 

[Rob Hutchinson]

Alan,

Great photos on Surfbirds, Palawan Scops is mega!

Got great views of Morepork in NZ and both Blakiston's and Ural Owl in Japan so now on 86, some way to go to match your 114!

Rob

 

[Larry Lade]

Alan, how do I get to your photos on Surfbirds?

 

[canadagurl123]

Added one in victoria:
Long eared Owl

 

[jiaolang]

Seen:
Collared Scops Owl (Singapore)
Brown Boobook (Singapore)
Barn Owl (Singapore)
Spotted Wood Owl (Singapore)
Buffy Fish Owl (Singapore)
Great Horned Owl (US)
Burrowing Owl (US)

Heard:
Collared Owlet (Fraser's Hill, Malaysia)

 

[Rob Hutchinson]

I understand that the cnephaeus subspecies of Collared / Sunda Scops Owl occurring in Singapore has been proposed as a seperate species 'Singapore Scops Owl' in the latest edition of Konig's Owls monograph. Not seen or heard it unfortunately so can't comment but worth keeping an eye out for.....

Seen:
Collared Scops Owl (Singapore)
Brown Boobook (Singapore)
Barn Owl (Singapore)
Spotted Wood Owl (Singapore)
Buffy Fish Owl (Singapore)
Great Horned Owl (US)
Burrowing Owl (US)

Heard:
Collared Owlet (Fraser's Hill, Malaysia)

 

[tyrannulet]

Barn Owl
Flammulated Owl (H)
Western Screech-Owl
Eastern Screech-Owl
Whiskered Screech-Owl (H)
Great Horned Owl
Snowy Owl
Northern Hawk Owl
Ferruginous Pygmy-Owl
Elf Owl
Burrowing Owl
Spotted Owl
Barred Owl
Long-eared Owl
Short-eared Owl
Northern Saw-whet Owl

So, 14 from NA (2 heard only)

Little Owl

And almost forgot my 1 from Europe (namely Italy)

 

[lostinjapan]

Well let me see..can't match some of the lists on here..but seen as follows

Little Owl
Tawny Owl
Short-eared Owl
Long-eared Owl
Eurasian Eagle Owl
Barn Owl
Eurasian Scops Owl (heard)
Oriental Scops Owl (heard)
Mountain Scops Owl (heard)
Japanese Scops Owl
Collared Scops Owl
Ryukyu Scops Owl
Brown Hawk Owl
Ural Owl
Boobook
Barred Owlet (heard)
and the creme de la creme..Blakiston's Fish Owl.

Always happy to add more

Sean

 

[Gashead]

Not as many as some, but a couple of decent ones...

Barn owl (UK)
Pallid scops owl (UAE)
African scops owl (SA)
Southern white-faced owl (SA)
Desert eagle owl (UAE)
Spot-bellied eagle owl (India)
Verraux's eagle owl (SA)
Brown fish owl (India)
Pel's fishing owl (Botswana)
Tawny owl (UK)
Pearl-spotted owlet (SA)
Jungle owlet (India)
Little owl (UK)
Spotted owlet (India)
Brown hawk owl (India)
Long-eared owl (UK)
Short-eared owl (UK)

 

[Oriole Express]

Hi All
I've seen the following Owls in the UK

Tawny
LEO
SEO
Barn
Little
Snowy

Also seen Burrowing Owl in Florida

 

[andy hood]

Only seen the following owls so far
Barn
Little
Tawny
Short Eared

 

[Jon Turner]

I think the straight answer to this question is - not enough!

I have added Marsh Owl this year, but it's still a paltry score compared to those earlier posts.

an embarrassed Jon

 

[Larry Lade]

My world list of owls is shown in this thread at post # 178.

I was hoping to add Tengmalm's Owl (Boreal Owl to us in North America) on my recent trip up to Duluth, Minnesota. Alas, it was not to be. I did not get to see one!

So my world list of owls remains as it was, 23 seen and 2 heard only!

 

[Tero]

4 usual ones for the area, no barn owl
one burrowing owl in Nebraska

Now 5. Screeech owl 2008. I need some guides. Hoping for maybe bubo bubo this summer.

 

[tyrannulet]

Took an idea from you larry and added my heard owls, though I generally do not count them since I only count seen birds

 

[Larry Lade]

I added one more species to my owl list on a recent "sight-seeing" trip to Beijing, China.

24. Brown Hawk-Owl, heard and seen on the Tsinghua University Campus, Beijing, China, April 28, 2009.

Edit: The Northern Boobook (Ninox japonica) was split from the Brown Hawk-Owl (Ninox scutulata). So my owl in China was the boobook.

 

[Dave Hall]

Hi In the U.K
Barn Owl
Long-eared Owl
Short-eared Owl
Tawny Owl
Little Owl
Snowy Owl
Scops Owl (also in Israel)
and in NY
Eastern Screech-owl

 

[tophillbirder]

Uk Barn Owl, Tawny Owl, Little Owl, Long-eared Owl, Short-eared Owl, Snowy Owl.
US Barred Owl, Great Horned Owl, Burrowing Owl.
Finland Great Grey Owl, Ural Owl, Pygmy Owl, Hawk Owl, Eagle Owl, Temgmalm's Owl.
Bogey Scop's Owl heard but not seen in Spain, dipped in Uk.

 

[ovenbird43]

Added Tawny-bellied Screech-Owl in Ecuador this winter, plus heard-only Crested Owl and Tropical Screech-Owl. From Arizona, I added Elf Owl (seen) and Whiskered Screech-Owl (heard only). Hoping to get a few new ones in Costa Rica in the coming weeks.