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. There are 6 species which occur in Chile.
- Magellanic Horned Owl Bubo magellanicus
- Rufous-legged Owl Strix rufipes
- Peruvian Pygmy-Owl Glaucidium peruanum
- Austral Pygmy-Owl Glaucidium nanum
- Burrowing Owl Athene cunicularia
- Short-eared Owl Asio flammeus
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