Brown wood owl

Brown wood owl
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Beautiful markings Pratim, great owl.

Thanks Carole Swingler maam ... Thanks Res. Gudrun Stahl Sharpley...

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22/01/2017
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OWLS OF INDIA-1 PAKHI DEKHUN PAKHI CHINUN # 733.(Observe the Bird and recognize)...BROWN WOOD OWL.. WATERCOLOUR...A4....2016...[ From the ref. Photograph of Megh Roy Choudhury maam] ... The Brown Wood Owl is a medium-sized owl with no ear-tufts and generally warm brown plumage. Description: The facial disc is fulvous or rufous-brown with a narrow but distinct black rim, and a blackish zone around the eyes. The eyebrows are whitish-buffish or pale orange-buff. Eyes are dark brown. The cere is bluish-grey and the bill greenish-horn with a bluish base. The head is blackish-brown with a rufous tint, and separated from the mantle by a prominent cinnamon-buff or fulvous nuchal collar. The mantle and back are chestnut-brown, and rather densely barred dark brown to blackish. The primaries are barred chestnut and dark brown, while the secondaries and wing-coverts are fulvous, barred with dark tawny-brown. The tail is similarly barred, and tipped whitish. The throat has a narrow, white horizonta

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