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Eastern Screech Owl

Megascops asio

Photo by AshleyT
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Field Notes

Description:

All gray streaked all over, very good at camouflaging in with trees. Fortunately for me, he wasn't in a tree :)

Habitat:

In a drainage tube on a building at Laguna Atascosa NWR. The surrounding area is thorn scrub.

Reference Links:

Eastern Screech-Owl, Identification, All About Birds - Cornell Lab of Ornitholo…

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Comments (4)
Tom15
Cute spotting! Looks like he's going to be shot out of a canon:-)
AshleyT
Thanks Antonio, he was one of the highlights of my trip :) I love how you can see his eyes through his squinting!

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