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Typical owls are small to large solitary nocturnal birds of prey. They have large forward-facing eyes and ears, a hawk-like beak, and a conspicuous circle of feathers around each eye called a facial disk. Eight species have been recorded in Indiana. Eastern screech-owl, Megascops asio; Great horned owl, Bubo virginianus; Snowy owl, Bubo scandiacus
The selection of state birds began with Kentucky adopting the northern cardinal in 1926. It continued when the legislatures for Alabama, Florida, Maine, Missouri, Oregon, Texas and Wyoming selected their state birds after a campaign was started by the General Federation of Women's Clubs to name official state birds in the 1920s.
Print/export Download as PDF; Printable version; ... In this list of birds by common name 11,278 extant and recently extinct (since 1500) bird species are ...
Common name Binomial name + authority IOC sequence Greater sooty owl: Tyto tenebricosa (Gould, 1845) 1 Lesser sooty owl: Tyto multipunctata Mathews, 1912: 2 Minahasa masked owl: Tyto inexspectata (Schlegel, 1879) 3 Taliabu masked owl: Tyto nigrobrunnea Neumann, 1939: 4 Moluccan masked owl: Tyto sororcula (Sclater, PL, 1883) 5 Manus masked owl
Turkey vultures at the Indiana Dunes. This is a list of birds of the Indiana Dunes. [1] The Indiana Dunes (state park and national park) protect over 15,000 acres (61 km 2) of dunes and shoreline. From the barren sand beaches to the inter-dunal ponds and the intervening forest, this area is inhabited by 271 identified species of birds.
The taxonomic treatment [3] (designation and sequence of orders, families and species) and nomenclature (common and scientific names) used in the accompanying bird lists adheres to the conventions of the AOS's (2019) Check-list of North American Birds, the recognized scientific authority on the taxonomy and nomenclature of North America birds.
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An owl is any one of some 200+ species of solitary, mostly nocturnal predatory birds. They are classified as order Strigiformes. Owls mostly hunt small mammals, insects, and other birds, though a few species specialize in hunting fish.