The Eastern Screech Owl (Otus Asio Linneaus) is one of the varieties of screech owls commonly found in the United States. Like the Western Screech, it is the smallest eared owl at only 8 inches long with a 2-foot wingspan. It typically has 70 feathers per square inch of its body. Depending on where it lives, screech owls are red, brown, or gray. In its Rufous, or red color phase, the Eastern Screech Owl is North America’s only reddish eared owl.click here to see a picture
Eastern Screech Owls make a whinny or trilling sound. It descends in pitch. Loud calls are made when hunting and soft calls when begging or courting. If they are threatened, they will start to click their beaks.
VOICE OR SOUND
click here to hear their call The Eastern Screech Owls like to live in woodlands, deciduous forest, parklands, and lots more. They will also avoid dense forest because Great Horned Owl use that habitat. Eastern Screech Owls roost mainly in natural cavities in large trees including cavities open to the sky during dry weather. They eat fish, insects, small mammals and birds.
HABITAT
(click here to see a dissected owl pellet)
An Eastern Screech Owl lays 3-7 eggs. It takes about twenty-six days for the eggs to be incubated and hatched. Mother Eastern Screech owls are very protective of their babies. She will go after animals twice her size to protect them. EGGS/NESTING
The Eastern Screech Owl lives mostly in the eastern parts of the U.S.A. Few can be found in Canada. They populate half of Texas and cover Louisiana, Florida, Mississippi, Alabama, Tennessee, Arkansas, Ohio, Maine, and most of the other states in the east. Its cousin the Western Screech Owl, populates the other side of America.
RANGE
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