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Eastern Screech Owl

Megascops asio

Photo by TextileRanger
Published on Project Noah
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30.3019, -95.5066

Field Notes

Habitat:

It was sleeping in a dead pine tree near a barn.

Notes:

I saw this bird several more times, over a month.

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