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.
- Tropical Screech Owl Megascops choliba
- Hoy's Screech-Owl Megascops hoyi
- Long-tufted Screech Owl Megascops sanctaecatarinae (A)
- Great Horned Owl Bubo virginianus
- Magellanic Horned Owl Bubo magellanicus
- Rusty-barred Owl Strix hylophila
- Rufous-legged Owl Strix rufipes
- Chaco Owl Strix chacoensis
- Mottled Owl Ciccaba virgata
- Black-banded Owl Ciccaba huhula
- Spectacled Owl Pulsatrix perspicillata
- Tawny-browed Owl Pulsatrix koeniswaldiana
- Yungas Pygmy Owl Glaucidium bolivianum
- East Brazilian Pygmy Owl Glaucidium minutissimum (A)
- Ferruginous Pygmy Owl Glaucidium brasilianum
- Tucuman Pygmy Owl Glaucidium tucumanum
- Austral Pygmy Owl Glaucidium nanum
- Burrowing Owl Athene cunicularia
- Buff-fronted Owl Aegolius harrisii
- Striped Owl Pseudoscops clamator
- Stygian Owl Asio stygius
- Short-eared Owl Asio flammeus
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