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

Face of the Eurasian eagle owl (bubo bubo) also known as European Eagle owl. The eagle-owl is from the higher classification of horned owls and is one of the largest species.

Decorative multicolored owl figurines on the shop a window

Portrait of a great grey owl (Strix nebulosa).

Short-eared Owl (Asio flammeus) - nocturnal bird

Portrait of wise owl with beautiful eyes

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.

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

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

close up of a ceramic owl in a museum,shallow depth of field

Beautiful Eurasian pygmy owl (Glaucidium passerinum), the smallest owl in Europe, perching on a tree.

Great Grey Owl in sweden Scandinavian forest. Aggressive Owl looking.

Close-up of the face of a Eagle Owl (Bubo bubo) - Spain

portrait of a beautiful owl dozing vigilant in a cage

The spectacled owl (Pulsatrix perspicillata). Bird of Prey.

$L 59-73cm, WS 138-170cm.\nResident in mountains an forests, preferring areas with rocks, steep cliffs and mature trees (preferably conifers); often in rocky archipelagos. Scattered distribution, generally rare and local.\nNocturnal and partly crepuscular. Day roost in dense mature spruces or firs, or in cave or crevice.\nFood mammals (voles, rats, hedgehogs, hares) and birds (corvids, gulls, wildfowl).\nNests on inaccessible cliff-edge or less often on the ground by rock, uprooted tree or among boulders, exceptionally in abandoned raptor’s nest or n barn, abandoned factory, etc.\nIn spite of its size and its impressive claws is by and large a non-violent and retiring owl near its nest, and aggressive behaviour toward humans is rare.\n\nThis is a scarce owl in the eastern and Southern part of the Netherlands and is mostly breeding in abandoned Quarries.\n\nThis Picture is made at a Birds of Prey Farm near Lunteren (Gelderland, the Netherlands).$

The barn owl is the most widely distributed species of owl in the world and one of the most widespread of all species of birds,

A close up of a Southern white faces Scops owl. Ptilopsus granti Kgalagadi.

The lesser sooty owl is a dark sooty-grey in color, with large eyes in a grey face, fine white spotting above and below, and a pale belly.

$Taxon name: Southern Barking Owl\nTaxon scientific name: Ninox connivens connivens\nLocation: Adel's Grove, Queensland, Australia$

Beautiful Barn owl (Tyto alba) sitting on a branch in an apple tree. Autumn background. Noord Brabant in the Netherlands.

Closed up nocturnal bird in silhouette, adult Brown wood-owl, low angle view, half shot, in the night sitting on the branch of tropical tree in nature of tropical moist montane forest, national park in high mountain of northern Thailand.

Barred Owl, Strix varia, is a large typical owl. It goes by many other names, including northern barred owl, striped owl, eight hooter, rain owl, wood owl, and striped owl, but is probably known best as the hoot owl. Kalispell, Montana.

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