Whiskered Screech-Owl

Megascops trichopsis

Order

STRIGIFORMES

Family

True Owls (Strigidae)

Code 4

WHSO

Code 6

MEGTRI

ITIS

HEAD

Bill Shape: Hooked
Eye Color: Lemon yellow in juveniles, becoming golden to orange with age, possibly darker in males. Color varies with light source.
Head Pattern: Eyeline, Crested or plumed, Streaked, Unique pattern
Crown Color: Gray or red-brown with dark streaking.
Forehead Color: Gray or red-brown with dark streaking. White with gray wash. facial disk with dark border.
Nape Color: Gray or buff with dark streaking.
Throat Color: Buff with rust-brown spotting.
Cere color: Gray

BODY

Length Range: 17-20 cm (6.5-8 in)
Weight: 85 g (3 oz)
Size: 2. Small (5 - 9 in)
Color Primary: Brown
Underparts: White and buff with brown streaking and dark crossbars.
Upperparts: Gray and brown mottling with narrow brown streaking and barring.
Back Pattern: Mottled
Belly Pattern: Striped or streaked, Mottled
Breast Pattern: Striped or streaked, Mottled

FLIGHT

Flight Pattern: Slow light steady wing beats.
Wingspan Range: 44 cm (17.5 in)
Wing Shape: Broad-Wings
Tail Shape: Squared Tail
Tail Pattern: Barred
Upper Tail: Gray-brown with narrow brown streaking and barring.
Under Tail: White with brown streaking and barring.
Leg Color: Feathered in pale brown.

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