Short Eared Owl

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🦉The short-eared owl, or « Shortie », is an unusual owl because it prefers to be out and about in the daytime. It is most easily spotted… | Instagram

Cascades Raptor Center is a nature center and wildlife hospital in Eugene, OR, with 50 native birds of prey on exhibit, representing 24 species.

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Keen amateur photographer Jack Branscombe, 27, snapped the short-eared owl in Essex have a spruce up during a short break from hunting its prey.

I encountered a Short-eared Owl while on a coastal walk. It heard me coming before I saw it. Its mottled brown body stood on the ground, its large head slowly turning on its short neck for it to stare at me with large, piercing, yellow eyes set in a foil of jet black before it jumped into flight drifting leisurely and floppily away on long, broad wings and showing its pale underparts.

Short-eared owls are winter visitors to much of North America, read the Infinite Spider Blog to learn more.

An in-flight photo of a Short-eared Owl facing off against a Northern Harrier took the top prize in our contest.

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