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Portrait of an Eastern Screech Owl - Masters of disguise.

The Eastern Screech Owl is seen here doing what they do best.

You better have a sharp eye to spot these little birds of prey.

Okeefenokee Swamp, Georgia, USA.

Photograph and caption: Graham McGeorge

National Geographic Traveler Photo Contest

Boston Globe > Big Picture

National Geographic Traveler Magazine: 2013 Photo Contest

May 10, 2013

http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2013/05/
national_geographic_traveler_m_1.html - broken link

A western screech owl roosting in an old apple tree

in Portland, US

Photograph: Janice Lorentz

Alamy

The week in wildlife – in pictures

The pick of the world’s best flora and fauna photos,

including a baboon with a lion cub and Devon beavers

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Fri 7 Feb 2020    17.56 GMT

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/
gallery/2020/feb/07/the-week-in-wildlife-in-pictures

owl        UK

http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2016/may/06/
barn-owl-litchfield-down-hampshire-country-diary

http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2013/aug/01/
barn-owls-threat-extreme-weather

http://www.guardian.co.uk/theguardian/2010/sep/12/
why-do-we-love-owls

USA > owl        UK / USA

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/apr/06/
kill-barred-owl-save-spotted-conservation

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/02/23/
nyregion/flaco-owl-central-park-zoo-dead.html

https://www.npr.org/2023/02/25/
1159515612/opinion-the-owl-that-became-a-new-yorker

https://www.npr.org/2022/02/11/
1080119057/superbowl-superb-owl-super-bowl-sunday

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/08/06/
nyregion/central-park-owl-barry-dead.html

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/03/
science/owls-vision-brain.html

http://www.npr.org/2016/05/24/
479223874/we-followed-a-snowy-owl-from-maryland-to-ontario

http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2014/01/30/
268922336/snowy-owl-that-enchanted-d-c-is-hit-by-a-bus

barn owl        UK

http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2013/dec/14/
barn-owls-threatened-freak-weather

short-eared owl

eagle owl        UK

http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2010/dec/26/
eagle-owl-cull-rspb

snowy owl        USA

http://www.npr.org/2016/05/24/
479223874/we-followed-a-snowy-owl-from-maryland-to-ontario

USA > western screech owl        UK

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/gallery/2020/feb/07/
the-week-in-wildlife-in-pictures

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Related > UK

The Guardian > Birds

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/birds 

The Guardian > Country Diary

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/series/country-diary

The Royal Society for the Protection of Birds    RSPB

https://www.rspb.org.uk/