RFW Bird-watching Resources

  Nocturnal Raptors: Owls

Great Horned Owl

(Bubo virginianus)

Family: Strigidae
Common Family Grouping:
Nocturnal Raptors: Owls
4-Letter Species Code: ghow
Size: Large

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   RFW-Corridor
Photo by: John Lay

   RFW-Corridor
Photo by: John Lay

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Great Horned Owl


Season - Abundance Status:
Year-round Bird - Rare

Link to USGS Site with more information: USGS

Hear sounds of Great Horned Owl at xeno-canto.org

Burrowing Owl

(Athene cunicularia)

Family: Strigidae
Common Family Grouping:
Nocturnal Raptors: Owls
4-Letter Species Code: buow
Size: Medium

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   Camino Medio
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Photo by: Bob Friedrichs

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Burrowing Owl


Season - Abundance Status:
Migrant Summer Breeder - Rare

Link to USGS Site with more information: USGS

Hear sounds of Burrowing Owl at xeno-canto.org

Range data provided by Infonatura/Natureserve. Ridgely, R. S., T. F. Alnutt, T. Brooks, D. K. McNicol, D. W. Mehlman, B. E. Young, and J. R. Zook. 2005 Digital Distribution Maps of the Birds of the Western Hemisphere, version 2.1 NatureServe, Arlington, Virginia, USA

eBird and CBC Graphs created with Google Charts: https://developers.google.com/chart

Data for CBC Graph: National Audubon Society (2020). The Christmas Bird Count Historical Results Online. Available http://www.christmasbirdcount.org November, 2020

Data for eBird Graph: eBird. 2021. eBird: An online database of bird distribution and abundance. eBird, Cornell Lab of Ornithology, Ithaca, New York. Available: http://www.ebird.org. (Accessed: January 7, 2021).