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Eastern Screech Owl Asleep In Nesting Hole, Grey Morph

Wild Bird

Naples, FL

USA

 

Eastern Screech Owl asleep in a nesting hole.in a royal palm tree. It's neighbor is the red-bellied woodpecker I uploaded ten days ago. The nests were about four feet from each other, with the screech owl at the top of the tree. This owl is a gray morph. The usual color for this bird is rusty brown.

 

The eastern screech owl or eastern screech-owl (Megascops asio) is a small owl that is relatively common in Eastern North America, from Mexico to Canada.This species is native to most wooded environments of its distribution and, more so than any other owl in its range, has adapted well to manmade development, although it frequently avoids detection due to its strictly nocturnal habits.

 

 

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Uploaded on June 29, 2016
Taken on May 2, 2016