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Barred owl

Strix varia

Photo by Maria dB
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Description:

I believe this was a young owl; it was making a raspy calling sound (see last two photos), which was answered one time by a typical hoot from an adult. The parent probably waited until I had moved on to come to the juvenile.

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Thank you, Christos! I very much enjoyed getting this spotting. :)

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