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The Spotted Owlet is small and stocky. The upperparts are grey-brown, heavily spotted with white. The underparts are white, streaked with brown. The facial disc is pale and the iris is yellow. There is a white neckband and supercilium. Sexes are similar.
A common resident of open habitats including farmland and human habitation.
Information source-wikipedia. I have cropped, lightened and removed red eye effect from the original photograph.
Spotted on Feb 18, 2011
Submitted on Sep 16, 2011
5 Comments
Thanks a lot Tony.
Wow so nice. I like owls. Unfortunately they are quite rare around here.
Thanks Dilek.
Lovely
At the same place where I had spotted a single owl in Feb 2011, I found a family of 5 in Oct. 3 hid when I removed the camera while 2 gave a nice pose.