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Short-eared Owl (Asio flammeus) - nocturnal bird

Western screech-owl (megascops kennicottii) by night, Arizona

Eurasian pygmy owl in natural habitat. The smallest European owl sits on the moss.

Close-up of an Eurasian eagle-owl yawning

The Eurasian eagle-owl wild bird (Bubo bubo) is a species of eagle-owl that resides in much of Eurasia.

$Tawny Frogmouth (Podargus strigoides strigoides) adult perched on branch at night\n\nsouth-east Queensland, Australia. March$

Barred owl (Strix varia) in the South Fork Rock Creek watershed, Siuslaw National Forest, Oregon. Photographed during a barred owl survey with US Geological Survey wildlife biologist Dave Simon, betwen 7pm and 12:30 am, June 30 - July 1, 2016.

$An Owl's daily activity begins with preening, stretching, yawning and combing its head with its claws. The plumage is often ruffled up, and claws and toes are cleaned by nibbling with the beak. The Owl will then leave its roost, sometimes giving a call (especially in breeding season)\n\nLike most owls, the barn owl is nocturnal, relying on its acute sense of hearing when hunting in complete darkness. It often becomes active shortly before dusk and can sometimes be seen during the day when relocating from one roosting site to another. In Britain, on various Pacific Islands and perhaps elsewhere, it sometimes hunts by day. This practice may depend on whether the owl is mobbed by other birds if it emerges in daylight. However, in Britain, some birds continue to hunt by day even when mobbed by such birds as magpies, rooks and black-headed gulls, such diurnal activity possibly occurring when the previous night has been wet making hunting difficult. By contrast, in southern Europe and the tropics, the birds seem to be almost exclusively nocturnal, with the few birds that hunt by day being severely mobbed.\n\nBarn owls are not particularly territorial but have a home range inside which they forage. For males in Scotland this has a radius of about 1 km (0.6 mi) from the nest site and an average size of about 300 hectares. Female home ranges largely coincide with that of their mates. Outside the breeding season, males and females usually roost separately, each one having about three favored sites in which to conceal themselves by day, and which are also visited for short periods during the night. Roosting sites include holes in trees, fissures in cliffs, disused buildings, chimneys and haysheds and are often small in comparison to nesting sites. As the breeding season approaches, the birds move back to the vicinity of the chosen nest to roost.$

A wild short eared owl flying one crisp winters evening

Portrait of a great grey owl (Strix nebulosa).

Little Owl, Athene noctua, bird in old roof tile ruin. Urban wildlife with bird with yellow eyes, Bulgaria. Wildlife scene from nature. Animal behavior in urban habitat, hidden owl.

Eurasian pygmy owl (Glaucidium passerinum)

The tawny owl, also called the brown owl, is commonly found in woodlands across Europe to western Siberia, and has seven recognized subspecies. It is a stocky, medium-sized owl, whose underparts are pale with dark streaks, and whose upper body may be either brown or grey.

Blakiston's fish owl (Ketupa blakistoni) fishing at night Hokkaido Japan

great grey owl in flight during golden hour

3d rendering of long eared owl sitting in the branches of a coniferous forest at night

Owl perched in a tree at night under the light of a full moon.

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