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From Cornell Lab of Ornithology

Cue 🎶 Why does it always feel like somebody's watching meee 🎶

Chances are you've been spotted by more owls than you've been able to spot.***

These two eerie owls definitely have their moonlike eyes set on something, probably prey. For a Tropical Screech-Owl, prey could mean just about anything, including small frogs, small snakes, birds, opossums, bats, and small rodents. Invertebrates found in their diet include earthworms, scorpions, spiders, harvestmen, and a wide variety of insects.

***Caveat: this hasn't been studied, and we don't know you, maybe you're great at spotting owls

Tropical Screeches are found in South America and southern Central America. They are known for having a herringbone style pattern on their underbits.

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[–] Lyrl@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Are these young sibling screeches, or mates, or some other relationship? It's cute to see them cuddling like that, but a little surprising since I usually think of owls as solitary.

[–] anon6789@lemmy.world 3 points 4 days ago (1 children)

They look to be juvies. Here's a grown up.

[–] Lyrl@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 4 days ago (1 children)

The juvies seem to have latitude stripes, and the adult broken longitude stripes. Neat!

[–] anon6789@lemmy.world 3 points 4 days ago

It is fun to see how some can change so considerably as they get adult feathers.

We looked at the Snowy the other day, which starts almost black and ends up almost, if not entirely, all white.

Saw Whet is another fav of mine. It starts off without much patterning and a nice black and tan motif, but grows up into a fairly uniform dark brown with more white stripes and flecks.