Owls (Family Strigidae)

[Super Mongoose]

Pearl-Spotted Owlet, Sweni road (S126), October 2012

[nan]

Pearl-spotted Owlet - Kruger 2008

[mposthumus]

Pretoriuskop camp - Pearl-spotted Owl

[mposthumus]

Lovely pics everyone! Possie, is that a spider the owl is eating?

I think it's a Red Roman Flutts he later returned with a bat or mouse or something

[Amoli]

And a Pearl spotted owlet on the way from Phalaborwa to Letaba

[Duke]

Not sure if I have posted these pics of the Pearly on AW forum but here goes.

Here's looking at you


Or is this looking at you


Or one false eye and one real eye


Here’s really looking at you


Quote from Peter Steyn, author of “A Delight of Owls” in the latest issue of Wild Magazine,

“Whenever I hear the crescendo whistling call of the diminutive Pearl Spotted Owlet, I know I am back in the bushveld, which has always been my spiritual home. I vividly recall my first sighting of this little owl one morning as it was pursued by several small birds before alighting on a branch. As I focused my bimoculars on it, I was puzzled because it appeared to be looking at me yet suddenly turned its head to reveal a further two piercing yellow eyes. I had initially been looking at its false eyes, large black spots on the back of its head.”

[Duke]

Pearly in Mapungubwe that did not fly away as we parked right below him

[nan]

Kruger - Biyamiti road - 16.5.2011 what a vision

African Barred Owlet/Chevêchette du Cap

[Toko]

Play Owl Quiz

[Flutterby]

An interesting link from Dewi of all the owl calls.

http://www.owlpages.com/sounds.php