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The eastern screech owl (Megascops asio) or eastern screech-owl, is a small owl that is relatively common in Eastern North America, from Mexico to Canada. [ 1 ] [ 3 ] This species resides in most types of woodland habitats across its range, and is relatively adaptable to urban and developed areas compared to other owls.
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A screech owl fossil from the Late Pliocene of Kansas [4] (which is almost identical to eastern and western screech owls) indicates a longstanding presence of these birds in the Americas, while coeval scops owl fossils very similar to the Eurasian scops owl have been found at S'Onix on Majorca. [5]
Sound localization is an animal’s ability to identify the origin of a sound in distance and direction. [3] Several owl species have ears that are asymmetrical in size and location, which enhances this ability. These species include barn owls (Tyto alba), northern saw-whet owls (Aegolius acadicus), and long-eared owls (Asio otus).
Many, like screech owls, will use big woodpecker holes or a hollow where a branch has broken off. Great horned owls, don’t use holes, but build their large nests in trees. Eastern screech owl ...
The primary call is an accelerating series of short whistles at an increasing tempo or a short then long trill falling slightly at end. Other calls: barking and chuckling, similar to the eastern screech owl. [6] They also make a high pitched screech. The two primary songs for the Western Screech Owl are the bounce and double trill.
Bearded screech owl: Megascops barbarus (Sclater, PL & Salvin, 1868) 211 Pacific screech owl: Megascops cooperi (Ridgway, 1878) 212 Western screech owl: Megascops kennicottii (Elliot, DG, 1867) 213 Eastern screech owl: Megascops asio (Linnaeus, 1758) 214 Balsas screech owl: Megascops seductus (Moore, RT, 1941) 215 Middle American screech owl
The white-throated screech owl inhabits the interior and edges of open humid evergreen montane forest and cloud forest and semi-open areas of scattered trees. In elevation it usually ranges between 2,000 and 3,000 m (6,600 and 9,800 ft) but is found locally as low as 1,300 m (4,300 ft) and, on the east slope of the Peruvian Andes, as high as ...