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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
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
In this list of birds by common name 11,278 extant and recently extinct (since 1500) bird species are recognised. [1] Species marked with a "†" are extinct. Contents
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.
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In the list of birds maintained by Frank Gill, Pamela Rasmussen and David Donsker on behalf of the International Ornithological Committee (IOC) the barn owl is now split into four species: the western barn owl (Tyto alba) (10 subspecies), the American barn owl (Tyto furcata) (12 subspecies), the eastern barn owl (Tyto javanica) (7 subspecies ...
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