Owls

Great Horned Owl

Bubo virginianus

The great horned owl (Bubo virginianus), also known as the tiger owl (originally derived from early naturalists' description as the "winged tiger" or "tiger of the air") or the hoot owl, is a large owl native to the Americas. It is an extremely adaptable bird with a vast range and is the most widely distributed true owl in the Americas. Its primary diet is rabbits and hares, rats and mice and voles, although it freely hunts...

Family

Owls

Order

Strigiformes

Weight

1.4 kg

Habitat

Forest

Diet

Vertebrates, fish and carrion

Migration

Resident

Countries recorded

18

Photo: Yellowstone National Park, PUBLIC DOMAIN via Wikimedia Commons