compendium-of-beasts:

21. The Barred Owl (Ulula nebulosa). 22. The Great Horned Owl (Bubo virginianus). (1842-1844)

via NYPL

day two of the April photo challenge: bright. another t-shirt in a frame… I don’t know why I ever thought I should wear creamsicle orange.

day twenty-four of the March photo challenge: habit.

rhamphotheca:

Great Horned Owl (Bubo virginianus)

by National Geo staff

Many birders first meet this formidable owl in late winter by finding a female sitting in a large stick nest in a leafless tree. Others are introduced to it as a hulking, eared shape atop a power pole at dusk—perhaps a male bending nearly horizontally as it sings. Primarily a nocturnal perch hunter, the great horned owl is a fierce predator that takes a wide variety of prey, but most commonly mammals, up to the size of a large hare. It favors disused tree nests of other large species, such as the red-tailed hawk, for nesting but also uses cavities in trees or cliffs, deserted buildings, and artificial platforms. It breeds early, with first eggs laid by January…

(read more: National Geo)    

—From the National Geographic book Complete Birds of North America, 2006

jomobimo:

Plate 1, Schreibers kleiner Atlas der einheimischen Vögel.

windypoplarsroom:

Utagawa Hiroshige

“Small Horned Owl On A Maple Branch Under A Full Moon”