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Western Screech-Owl

Otus kennicottii ORDER: STRIGIFORMES FAMILY: STRIGIDAE

IUCN Conservation Status: Least Concern

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A common small owl of the West, the Western Screech-Owl can be found in urban as well as wild lands.

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Songs

Series of short whistled hoots, more closely spaced at end of series.

Calls

  • Agitated bark and bill clap
    Recorded by David Herr
    Washington November 1990
  • Te-te-do call progressing into agitated double trill
    Recorded by David Herr
    Oregon August 1990
  • Female begging whinny
    Recorded by Kent Bovee, Meredith Bovee
    Alaska April 2005
    • Courtesy of Macaulay Library
    © Cornell Lab of Ornithology.
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