| Common Name: | Owl, Barred | | Scientific Name: | Strix varia | | Family: | Strigidae (Owls) | | Area: | Darrow Bar State Park, Oregon | | Date: | September 9, 2015 | 
This large sized owl is thought to be displacing the environmental sensitive Spotted Owl here in the Northwest. It's call could be interpreted to sound like, "who cooks for you?" | 
Beaver Creek State Natural Area, Oregon - - - September 4, 2013 | 
Bald Hill Park - Corvallis, Oregon - - - October 29, 2008 | | Reference: | Western Birds by Peterson / Birds of Oregon by Burrows & Gilligan / Birds of the Willamette Valley Region by Neels, Aversa & Opperman |
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