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Tawny Owl

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Tawny Owl
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Field marks

Medium-sized, compact, big-headed owl with no ear tufts, all-black eyes and a round, gentle expression. Grey or (commonest in Denmark) rufous-brown.

Can be confused with

  • Long-eared Owl — Long-eared Owl is slimmer with long ear tufts and orange eyes; the Tawny Owl is round and big-headed with all-black eyes and no tufts.

Voice

The male's familiar, mournful hoot "hooo… hu-huhuhooo"; also a sharp "ke-wick" as a contact call.

Facts

Wingspan

99 cm

Conservation status

ikke truet

Family

typical owls

Strigidae

Read more

This is a short overview for the quiz. For the full account, go to the sources:

  • Danmarks Fugle at the Danish Ornithological Society (in Danish)
  • Wikipedia (in Danish)The description above is from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).
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