A worldwide community photographing and learning about wildlife
Project Noah Nature School
Asio stygius
The Stygian Owl is a fairly widespread species but always difficult to find. I photographed this bird in the vast Zapata Swamps of Cuba. It obtains its name from the legendary dark River Styx, in reference to this bird's dark plumage.
Spotted on Nov 30, 2009
Submitted on Nov 30, 2011
7 Comments
What an awesome owl! I would love you to add this spotting (and any others that apply) to the mission Raptors of North America: http://www.projectnoah.org/missions/8627...
Nice capture and spotting.
Freaky eyes. Bizarre
I can only wonder the level of difficult to take such a photo... To be able to see it seems to be a huge challenge. To take the shot... Thanks for sharing.
Eyes are really very creepy
Won't miss a thing, with those eyes. Good picture-thanks.
So scary with it's eye