Also known as the white or screech owl – just one of the many noises this vocal bird emits – the barn owl ... If conditions are favourable, they’re capable of producing more than one brood a year.

The goggle-eyed Cuban screech owl gets its other common name, bare-legged owl, from its featherless lower appendages. While most of the world’s more than 200 owl species wear feathers down to ...

The large northwest subspecies max­welliae is the palest and most faintly marked. The western screech owl’s bill is blackish or dark gray at the base, but gray-plumaged individuals are ...