Owls

Mottled Owl

Ciccaba virgata

The Mottled Owl (Ciccaba virgata) is a 284 g forest bird that eats mostly other vertebrates. It stays put all year.

Family

Owls

Order

Strigiformes

Weight

284 g

Habitat

Forest

Diet

Vertebrates, fish and carrion

Migration

Resident

Countries recorded

19

Recorded in Costa Rica, Mexico, Guatemala, Belize, Colombia, Panama, Brazil, Ecuador, Honduras, Nicaragua, El Salvador, United States, Venezuela, Peru, Argentina, Trinidad and Tobago, Paraguay, Bolivia, Guyana.

Where to see it: Finca Rubel Chaim (acceso restringido) (Guatemala); RNP Chajbaoc (Guatemala); RNP Los Tarrales · sendero La Rinconada (Guatemala); Curi-Cancha Refugio de Vida Silvestre (Costa Rica); Rancho Primavera (Mexico).

Photo: (c) Ricard Busquets Reverte, some rights reserved (CC BY) via iNaturalist