Typical Owls
Order: Strigiformes. Family: Strigidae
Typical owls are small to large solitary nocturnal birds of prey. They have large forward-facing eyes and ears, a hawk-like beak, and a conspicuous circle of feathers around each eye called a facial disk.
- Western Screech-Owl Megascops kennicottii
- Pacific Screech-Owl Megascops cooperi
- Whiskered Screech-Owl Megascops trichopsis
- Guatemalan Screech-Owl Megascops guatemalae
- Great Horned Owl Bubo virginianus
- Fulvous Owl Strix fulvescens
- Mottled Owl Ciccaba virgata
- Black-and-white Owl Ciccaba nigrolineata
- Crested Owl Lophostrix cristata
- Spectacled Owl Pulsatrix perspicillata
- Northern Pygmy-Owl Glaucidium californicum
- Mountain Pygmy-Owl Glaucidium gnoma
- Guatemalan Pygmy-Owl Glaucidium cobanense
- Central American Pygmy-Owl Glaucidium griseiceps
- Ferruginous Pygmy-Owl Glaucidium brasilianum
- Burrowing Owl Athene cunicularia (A)
- Striped Owl Pseudoscops clamator
- Stygian Owl Asio stygius
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