How many species of owl have you seen (2 Viewers)

[Jacana]

i hope it was calling; could by migrant nominate!

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aye, it called!

 

[jamerbean]

The only owls I've ever actually seen are barn owls. There was one in particular that had a habit of flying directly over my car as I came home at night after classes... scared the crap out of me, since it always seemed like it was about to smack into my windshield. There were also barn owls that would regularly nest in my grandpa's deer stand each year.

I have heard great horned owls every now and then but never saw any.

 

[chris butterworth]

I've seen quite a few species in my wanderings - if you are going to go to obscure parts of the world then you've got to make an effort to pick up the "difficult" species.

BARN OWLS

Barn Owl :-
alba - UK
schmitzi - Madeira
gracilirostris - Canary Is.
guttata - Europe
detorta ( Cape Verde Barn Owl ) - Cape Verde Is.
affinis ( African Barn Owl ) - Sub-saharan Africa
javanica - SE Asia, Borneo, Java
delicatula ( Australian Barn Owl ) Australia
lulu ( Pacific Barn Owl ) - Fiji
pratincola ( American Barn Owl ) - Nth. America
furcata ( Caribbean Barn Owl ) - Cuba
contempta - Venezuela
Ashy-faced Barn Owl - Dominican Republic
Sulawesi Masked Owl - Sulawesi
Lesser Masked Owl - Australia
Australian Masked Owl - Australia
Greater Sooty Owl - Australia
African Grass Owl - Sub-saharan Africa
Eastern Grass Owl - India > Australia
Oriental Bay Owl - Malaya, Vietnam

'TRUE' OWLS

Nthn White-faced Scops Owl - Kenya
White-fronted Scops Owl - Malaysia
Reddish Scops Owl - Sumatra, Java
Sokoke Scops Owl - Kenya
Spotted Scops Owl :-
spilocephalus - Nepal
hanbroeki - Taiwan
siamensis - SE Asia
Pallid Scops Owl - Turkey, Israel
Flammulated Owl - British Columbia > California
African Scops Owl - Sub-saharan Africa
Eurasian Scops Owl - Europe > Japan
Oriental Scops Owl - Nepal > Thailand
Ryukyu Scops Owl - Amami-shima > Iriomote-jima
Moluccan Scops Owl - Halmahera, Seram, Buru
Pemba Scops Owl - Pemba I. Tanzania
Indian Scops Owl - India > Thailand
Collared Scops Owl - Heilungjiang, China > Sarawak
Bare-legged Scops Owl - Seychelles
Eastern Screech Owl - Florida
Western Screech Owl - British Columbia > California
Pacific Screech Owl - Costa Rica
Tropical Screech Owl - Costa Rica, Venezuela, Trinidad
Vermiculated Screech Owl - Costa Rica, Venezuela
Cuban Screech Owl - Cuba
Maned Owl - Gabon
Crested Owl - Costa Rica
Spectacled Owl - Venezuela
Great Horned Owl - North America
Eurasian Eagle Owl - W. Europe > Heilungjiang, China
Pharoh's Eagle Owl - Egypt, Israel, UAE
Indian Eagle Owl - N. India
Mackinder's Eagle Owl - Sub-saharan Africa
Spotted Eagle Owl - Kenya
Fraser's Eagle Owl - Gabon
Nduk Eagle Owl - Tanzania
Forest Eagle Owl - Nepal, Nthn. India
Verreaux's Eagle Owl - Sub-saharan Africa
Dusky Eagle Owl - Malaysia
Akun Eagle Owl - Gabon
Blakiston's Fish Owl - Hokkaido, Japan
Brown Fish Owl - India > SE Asia
Tawny Fish Owl - Vietnam
Buffy Fish Owl - Malaysia, Sumatra., Borneo, Vietnam, Thailand
Pel's Fishing Owl - Sub-saharan Africa
Vermiculated Fishing Owl - Gabon
Snowy Owl - Holarctic
Mottled Owl - Trinidad
Brown Wood Owl - Nepal > Borneo
Tawny Owl - UK > Tuva
Humes Owl - Isreal
Barred Owl - British Columbia
Ural Owl - Scandinavia > Japan
Great Grey Owl - Holarctic
Northern Hawk Owl - Holarctic
Collared Owlet - Taiwan
Eurasian Pygmy Owl - Europe, Tuva
Pearl-spotted Owlet - Tanzania, Kenya
Nthn. Pygmy Owl - British Columbia
Californian Pygmy Owl - British Columbia > California
ferruginous Pygmy Owl - Costa Rica, Venezuela
Cuban Pygmy Owl - Cuba
Red-chested Owlet - Gabon
Sjostedt's Owlet - Gabon
Barred Owlet - Thailand
Javan Owlet - Java, Bali
Eastern Barred Owlet - Tanzania
Little Owl - UK > Altai Republic, Morocco > Ethiopia
Burrowing Owl - California, Florida, Dom. Rep., Venezuela, Argentina
Tengmalm's Owl - Holarctic
Nthn. Saw-whet Owl - British Columbia
Powerful Owl - Victora, Australia
Barking Owl - Halmahera, Queensland
Sthn. Boobook - Australia
Morepork - New Zealand
Nthn Boobook ( brown Hawk Owl ) - Japan > Borneo
Moluccan Boobook - halmahera, Seram, Buru
Speckled Boobook - Sulawesi
Striped Owl - Costa Rica
Long-eared Owl - Holarctic
Stygian Owl - Cuba, Dom. Rep.
Abyssinian Owl - Ethiopia, Kenya
Jamaican Owl - Jamaica
Short-eared Owl - Holarctic, Falklands
Marsh Owl - Morocco, Sub-saharan Africa

 

[Jacana]

up to 13 now with a cracking Eurasian Scops Owl in the hand in Cyprus!

A photo of the beastie!

 

[Dave B Smith]

Up to 15 adding a Rufescent Screech-Owl on a recent trip to Ecuador. Of course, if and when they decide on what the "San Isidro Mystery Owl is I'll get an armchair tick.

 

[Rob Hutchinson]

Rob

Forgot to say, my 120 is Clements based not "all taxa" or including Hutchinson & Eaton dubious splits!

cheers, a

Ouch that hurts!! But turns out to be true!

Just added four stonkers in Finland;

Hawk-Owl
Northern Pygmy Owl
Great Grey Owl
Tengmalm's Owl

That puts me on 123 but I have 13 non-clements on their so still 10 behind Alan.

 

[lewis20126]

Ouch that hurts!! But turns out to be true!

Just added four stonkers in Finland;

Hawk-Owl
Northern Pygmy Owl
Great Grey Owl
Tengmalm's Owl

That puts me on 123 but I have 13 non-clements on their so still 10 behind Alan.

Crikey, not sure I'll get too many this year - have to dig some grim Megascops out of Bolivia

Did you get "proper" views of the Tengmalms or was it "head sticking out of nest box" type views? I still need that one..PM details would be good if its an easy, good views one.

cheers, alan

 

[Edward]

Crikey, not sure I'll get too many this year - have to dig some grim Megascops out of Bolivia

Did you get "proper" views of the Tengmalms or was it "head sticking out of nest box" type views? I still need that one..PM details would be good if its an easy, good views one.

cheers, alan

Got good views of Tengmalm's in Sweden at the end of March, and not a nest box in sight! It did involve wandering around in a forest in the dark in thigh-deep snow for an hour with a powerful torch though.

Generally not done very well for owls on foreign trips (except Sweden) -

Barn Owl (UK)
European Scops Owl (Spain)
African Scops Owl (Kenya)
Northern White-faced Owl (Kenya)
Eurasian Eagle Owl (Spain, Sweden)
Greyish Eagle Owl (Kenya)
Verreaux's Eagle Owl (Kenya)
Snowy Owl (Iceland)
Northern Hawk Owl (Sweden)
Eurasian Pygmy Owl (Sweden)
Ferruginous Pygmy Owl (Trinidad)
Little Owl (Spain, Turkey, UK)
Tawny Owl (UK)
Ural Owl (Sweden)
Great Grey Owl (Sweden)
Long-eared Owl (Iceland, Spain, UK, Netherlands)
Short-eared Owl (Iceland, UK, US)
Tengmalm's Owl (Sweden)

 

[lewis20126]

Got good views of Tengmalm's in Sweden at the end of March, and not a nest box in sight! It did involve wandering around in a forest in the dark in thigh-deep snow for an hour with a powerful torch though.

Sounds superb - that's the way I'd like to see it to be honest; may be one day

cheers, alan

 

[Gryphon]

i saw a pigmy or burrowing owl standing in a parking lot in Las Vegas. no joke.

 

[Rob Hutchinson]

Crikey, not sure I'll get too many this year - have to dig some grim Megascops out of Bolivia

Did you get "proper" views of the Tengmalms or was it "head sticking out of nest box" type views? I still need that one..PM details would be good if its an easy, good views one.

cheers, alan

We got both, one carrying a huge vole by the roadside and a nest job as well. There are more than 40 nests just around Kuusamo this year plus many around Oulu so plenty around!

I may have attached a couple of photos here, lets see...

 

[lmans66]

Sad to say a weak area for me...8... between the states and just a few in Ecuador...

 

[Mysticete]

Just returned from the Colorado Field Ornithologist Convention, and via one of the owling trips was able to add

Northern Saw-whet Owl, my 18th owl species

Heard but didn't see Flammulated, so do not count it on my list

 

[chris butterworth]

and.......

Palau ( Scops ) Owl - Babeldoab, Republic of Belau ( yesterday )

Cracking views just behind the rather grotesque pastiche they call the Capitol!!!!

Chris

 

[Jeff Hopkins]

And another update (from an Ecuador trip in Oct.)

Tropical Screech
Tawny-bellied Screech
Black-banded (i.e. "The San Isidro Mystery Owl")

Now at 36.

Add Little Owl and Eurasian Scops-owl.

Up to 38.

 

[viator]

My recent trip to Vietnam added Asian Barred Owlet. Up to 17 now

 

[Dave B Smith]

16 with a Mottled Owl this morning.

 

[Jynx]

19 so far

First seen in
Barred Owl - Florida, U.S.A.
Black-and-white Owl - Costa Rica
Burrowing Owl - Arizona, U.S.A.
Eagle Owl - Finland
Ferruginous Pygmy Owl - Costa Rica
Great Grey Owl - Finland
Great Horned Owl - Florida, U.S.A.
Hawk Owl - Finland
Little Owl - England
Long-eared Owl - England
Morepork - Tiri-Tiri-Matangi, New Zealand
Pacific Screech Owl - Costa Rica
Pygmy Owl - Finland
Scops Owl - Mallorca
Short-eared Owl - Wales
Snowy Owl - England
Tawny Owl - England
Tengmalm's Owl - Finland
Ural Owl - Finland

 

[Shantanu]

Brown hawk owl
Eurasian Eagle owl Bubo bubo bengalensis (Rock eagle owl)
Jungle owlet
Spotted owlet
Brown fish owl
Collared scops owl
Barn owl
Short-eared owl

All in india

 

[ovenbird43]

Recently added Flammulated Owl in Colorado... now I just need Boreal Owl for a full set of ABA area owls.