Common Name: | Owl, Californian Great Horned | Scientific Name: | Bubo virginianus pacificus | Family: | Strigidae (Owls) | Area: | Red Bluff Recreation Area, California | Date: | February 21, 2012 |
From what I have read, Great Horned Owls are some of earliest-breeding birds in North America; they breed in late January or early February. They also take over other birds' nests, and in this Red Bluff Recreation Area there are a large number of Yellow-billed Magpie and Red Shoulder Hawk nests, all this taken together could account for the possibility of this being a nesting female. |
Red Bluff Recreation Area, California - - - February 21, 2012 - photo by Dan Lawry | Reference: | Kaufman Field Guide to Birds of America by Kaufman / The Sibley Guide to Birds by Sibley / Birds of the Willamette Valley Region by Nehls, Aversa, & Opperman |
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