Sunday, September 15, 2013

Long Eared Owl

The Long Eared Owl is a beautiful owl that is a year round resident in Southern Arizona. Southern Arizona also gets some migrants from the southern Canadian Provinces.  It is widespread however, with populations in Europe, Asia and parts of Africa. It has very distinctive orange eyes and long ear tufts. The photo below was taken at Whitewater Draw in Southern Arizona. It was pretty well camouflaged and didn't move an inch in the hour and a half I was there. It was a challenge to find an angle that would give me a good photo. But as you can see, eventually I found one:


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