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Great Gray Owl

Strix nebulosa ORDER: STRIGIFORMES FAMILY: STRIGIDAE

IUCN Conservation Status: Least Concern

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Great Gray Owl Photo

© William L. Newton / CLO

A huge owl of the boreal forest and western mountains, the Great Gray Owl feeds on rather small rodent prey.

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    Recorded by David S. Herr
    • Courtesy of Macaulay Library
    © Cornell Lab of Ornithology.

Series of deep, evenly spaced "hoos."

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