i'm keeping my eyes on you!
Parent 1 maintaining a covert watch on me....
Great Horned Owl GHOW (Bubo virginianus)
Carmichael, Saskatchewan, Canada
DSCN8476
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Prairie occurring subspecies is much paler than our
"Great Horns' of the west coast
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Northern or Subarctic Great Horned Owl or Western Horned Owl (Bubo virginianus subarcticus - Hoy, 1853)
Range: Found in northwestern British Colombia east through Mackenzie County, Alberta to Hudson Bay and south into the United States, where they are found in Wyoming and North Dakota. This race - or intermediates between this form and ssp. pallescens and/or lagophonus (or unnamed race) - also occurs south to Arizona, New Mexico and southwestern Texas (where they are found in the Guadalupe Mountains). Birds found in the Rocky Mountains of west central Canada south to west central USA are often separated as ssp. occidentalis. However, they are now by most authorities identified as race subarcticus.
ID: The largest-bodied subspecies of all. This pale form has a plumage that is essentially whitish with a faint creamy tinge on the upper plumage. The plumage below is variably barred blackish - from indistinct to heavily barred. The palest amongst them can be confused with young, female Snowy Owl. Their feet are whitish to buff.
www.beautyofbirds.com/greathornedowlspecies.html
i'm keeping my eyes on you!
Parent 1 maintaining a covert watch on me....
Great Horned Owl GHOW (Bubo virginianus)
Carmichael, Saskatchewan, Canada
DSCN8476
************
Prairie occurring subspecies is much paler than our
"Great Horns' of the west coast
***
Northern or Subarctic Great Horned Owl or Western Horned Owl (Bubo virginianus subarcticus - Hoy, 1853)
Range: Found in northwestern British Colombia east through Mackenzie County, Alberta to Hudson Bay and south into the United States, where they are found in Wyoming and North Dakota. This race - or intermediates between this form and ssp. pallescens and/or lagophonus (or unnamed race) - also occurs south to Arizona, New Mexico and southwestern Texas (where they are found in the Guadalupe Mountains). Birds found in the Rocky Mountains of west central Canada south to west central USA are often separated as ssp. occidentalis. However, they are now by most authorities identified as race subarcticus.
ID: The largest-bodied subspecies of all. This pale form has a plumage that is essentially whitish with a faint creamy tinge on the upper plumage. The plumage below is variably barred blackish - from indistinct to heavily barred. The palest amongst them can be confused with young, female Snowy Owl. Their feet are whitish to buff.
www.beautyofbirds.com/greathornedowlspecies.html