Collared Scops Owl

Description:

The Collared Scops Owl is a small (23–25 cm) owl, although it is the largest of the scops owls. Like other scops owls, it has small head tufts, or ears. The upperparts are grey or brown, depending on the subspecies, with faint buff spotting. The underparts are buff with fine darker streaking. The facial disc is whitish or buff, and the eyes are orange or brown. There is a buff neckband. Sexes are similar.

Habitat:

Seen at Kanha National Park.

Notes:

This species is nocturnal but it can often be located by the small birds that mob it while it is roosting in a tree. My very first spotting is of the same owl from the same place http://www.projectnoah.org/spottings/619...