Bird Encyclopedia
Search and identify 1,000+ birds — with size, habitat, diet, voice, behavior, and the field marks that tell them apart.
Ferruginous Pygmy-Owl
A tiny, reddish desert owl that hunts boldly by day and mobs prey much larger than itself.
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Great Gray Owl
North America's tallest owl, with an enormous facial disk marked by concentric rings that helps it hunt rodents hidden beneath snow.
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Barn Owl
A pale, heart-faced owl of open farmland with an eerie raspy screech instead of a hoot, renowned as a superb rodent hunter.
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Boreal Owl
A small, secretive northern owl of dense conifer forests, rarely seen but identified by its fast, bell-like trilling song.
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Short-eared Owl
A ground-nesting owl of open country often seen flying low over fields on buoyant, moth-like wingbeats at dusk.
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Long-eared Owl
A slender, secretive owl with tall, close-set ear tufts and orange eyes that roosts by day in dense cover.
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Flammulated Owl
A tiny, dark-eyed owl of western pine forests, almost entirely insect-eating and best detected by its low, ventriloquial hoot.
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Eastern Screech-Owl
A small, stocky, ear-tufted owl occurring in gray and reddish color forms, best known for its eerie descending whinny call.
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Great Horned Owl
A large, powerful owl with prominent ear tufts and a deep, resonant hoot, able to take prey larger than itself.
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Whiskered Screech-Owl
A small, eared owl of southwestern mountain oak woodlands, best identified by its distinctive irregular, morse-code-like song.
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Northern Hawk Owl
A hawk-like, long-tailed owl of the northern taiga that hunts by day from exposed treetop perches.
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Elf Owl
The world's smallest owl, roughly sparrow-sized, that nests in old woodpecker holes in giant saguaro cacti.
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Spotted Owl
A dark-eyed, chocolate-brown owl of old-growth forests, famous as a symbol of conservation conflict over Pacific Northwest logging.
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Western Screech-Owl
A small, gray, ear-tufted owl of the western United States, identified by its accelerating series of hollow whistled notes.
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Barred Owl
A round-headed forest owl with dark eyes and a chest of horizontal barring, famous for its 'who cooks for you' call.
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Northern Pygmy-Owl
A tiny, fierce owl of western mountain forests that hunts by day and is often mobbed by small songbirds.
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Northern Saw-whet Owl
One of North America's smallest owls, a tiny, big-eyed forest owl whose repetitive tooting call recalls the sound of a saw being sharpened.
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Burrowing Owl
A small, long-legged owl that nests underground and is often seen standing at burrow entrances in open country during the day.
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Snowy Owl
A large, powerful white owl of the Arctic tundra that hunts by day and periodically irrupts far south in search of food.
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