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Image of barred owl
Barred Owl
Strix varia
The barred owl is easily identified both visually and by sound. Learn to recognize its call, and on moonlit nights in their habitat, you may hear it quite often!
Image of eastern screech-owl, gray phase
Eastern Screech-Owl
Otus asio
This owl—which really doesn’t “screech”—can be gray, brown or red, but in Missouri you can verify your identification by noting its small size, yellow eyes and prominent ear tufts.
Photo of a great horned owl on a tree branch
Great Horned Owl
Bubo virginianus
The great horned owl has wide-set ear tufts and a white throat. After dark, you can identify it by its three to eight deep hoots grouped in a pattern, such as “hoo h'HOO, HOO, HOO.”
Image of long-eared owl.
Long-Eared Owl
Asio otus
The long-eared owl is strictly nocturnal and highly secretive by day. This crow-sized owl hunts over open country at night.
short eared owl
Short-Eared Owl
Asio flammeus
The short-eared owl is commonly active during day as well as night. A prairie species, it hunts while flying low over grasslands, with a buoyant, mothlike flight. The short ear tufts are difficult to see.
Photo of a common nighthawk on a fence rail.
Common Nighthawk
Chordeiles minor
At night, common nighthawks fly, with quick flaps, glides, and darting movements, around lights pursuing flying insects. They are brown with a white mark on the underside of each narrow wing.
Photo of an eastern whip-poor-will crouching on leaf litter.
Eastern Whip-Poor-Will
Antrostomus vociferus (formerly Caprimulgus vociferus)
Although many people hear the evening calls of whip-poor-wills, few ever see these birds because by day they crouch on the ground amid fallen leaves, where they are perfectly camouflaged.