Typical Owls

It is found in south-eastern Brazil, south-eastern Paraguay, and extreme north-eastern Argentina. It inhabits a variety of landscapes, especially lowland rainforest and including forest with thick undergrowth, edges, open woodland, and secondary forest.

It is found in Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, French Guiana, Guyana, Peru, Suriname, and Venezuela. It inhabits the interior of lowland rainforest, mostly old growth and mature secondary forest, at elevations of 600–700 m.

It is found from Santa Elena and Guayas Provinces in southwestern Ecuador south slightly into north-western Peru. It inhabits dry deciduous woodland on mountain slopes and hills, dry coastal scrub and deciduous forest, at elevations of 500–2,100 m.

It is known only from Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta of northern Colombia. It inhabits humid forest, at elevations of 1,800–2,500 m.

It is found in the southeastern Brazilian states of Paraná, Santa Catarina, and Rio Grande do Sul, in Misiones Province of northeastern Argentina, and in adjoining northern Uruguay. It inhabits sparse woodland, pastures with trees, the edges of dense forest, secondary forest, and woodlots near villages.

It is found in southern and northern Venezuela, southern Guyana, Suriname, eastern Colombia, eastern Peru, northern Bolivia, and eastern Ecuador. It inhabits dense humid to wet rainforest, at elevations of 250–1,800 m.

It is found from central Panama into north-western Colombia and in a narrow band of western Ecuador. It inhabits the interior and borders of humid primary and secondary forest in lowlands and foothills, at elevations of 1,000–1,575 m.

It is found from south-central Bolivia’s Cochabamba Department south into north-western Argentina as far as Tucumán Province. It inhabits moist montane and cloud forests characterized by tall trees and abundant epiphytes, at elevations of 1,000–2,800 m.

It lives in the Andes of south and central Peru, in the Departments of Pasco, Cuzco, and Puno, as well as in northern Bolivia. It inhabits cloud forest, a humid, mossy landscape with epiphytes, ferns, and a dense understory, at elevations of 1,550–2,580 m.

It is known only from the eastern slope of the Andes, ranging from southern Ecuador into northern Peru, and occurring locally in northern Colombia. It inhabits humid montane forest at elevations of 1,650–2,450 m.

It is found in Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, and Venezuela. It inhabits a wide variety of forest types including the interior and edges of mature evergreen and secondary forests and pastures with scattered trees, at elevations of 1,200–2,500 m.

It is endemic to Peru. It inhabits evergreen forests, dry forests, and scrubby areas in intermontane valleys. It occurs at elevations of 1,400–4,500 m.

It is found from northern Mexico to western Panama. It inhabits evergreen, semi-deciduous, and thorn forests, and to a lesser extent, secondary forests and plantations, at elevations of 0–1,500 m.

It is endemic to interior southwestern Mexico. Its range is centered on the valley of the Balsas River from southern Jalisco southeast into central Guerrero. It inhabits arid open and semi-open areas such as deciduous woodland with cactus, thorn forest, and secondary forest, at elevations of 600–1,500 m.

It is found in eastern North America, ranging from Mexico northward to Canada. It inhabits most types of woodland habitats across its range, and is relatively adaptable to urban and developed areas.

It is native to Canada, United States, Mexico, Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras, Costa Rica, and Nicaragua. Its habitat includes temperate forests, subtropical and tropical montane forests, shrubland, desert, rural fields, and even suburban parks and gardens.

It is found from eastern Oaxaca and Chiapas in Mexico, south along the Pacific slope into north-western Costa Rica. It inhabits swamp forests and mangroves, arid and semi-arid woodlands and scrub, open areas with scattered trees and cacti, and secondary forest.

It is found from the highlands of central Chiapas, Mexico south and east into the highlands of central and western Guatemala. It inhabits humid temperate montane forests of various types, including pine-oak, oak, and cloud forests, at elevations of 1,350–2,500 m.

It is found from Costa Rica and Panama south and throughout South America, almost entirely east of the Andes, but not in the far south. It inhabits secondary forests, open woodland, coffee plantations, residential areas, and the borders of terra firme and várzea forests.

It is found in the Andes of Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru and Venezuela. It inhabits the interior and edges of open humid evergreen montane forest and cloud forest and semi-open areas of scattered trees, at elevations of 1,300–3,700 m.

It is found in Costa Rica, Panama, and far north-western Colombia. Its habitat is in mountain forests that are dense and humid, along with the edges of forests and in cloud forests that have an elevation of 900–3,300 m.

It is found from south-eastern Arizona and south-western New Mexico in the United States, south through Mexico, Guatemala, El Salvador, and Honduras to north-central Nicaragua. Its breeding habitat includes dense coniferous or oak woodlands and coffee plantations.

It is found only in the Atlantic Forest north of the São Francisco River of Brazil, and is threatened by forest fragmentation.

It is found on the eastern slopes of the Andes, from central Colombia south through Ecuador and Peru to west-central Bolivia. It primarily inhabits the interior of humid montane forests and foothill rainforests, at elevations of 650–2,200 m.

It is found in Brazil from Espírito Santo state south to northern Rio Grande do Sul and the immediately adjacent areas of eastern Paraguay and northeastern Argentina. It inhabits humid tropical forest, open woodland, and forest dominated by Araucaria evergreens, at elevations up to 1,500 m.

It is found in forests from southern Mexico and Trinidad, through Central America, and south to southern Brazil, Paraguay, and northwestern Argentina.

It is found in Central America and northern South America. It occurs throughout most of the Amazon Basin, except in the northwestern region. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests and subtropical or tropical moist montane forests, at elevations up to 1,000 m.

It is found in Myanmar, Thailand, Cambodia, southern Vietnam, Peninsular Malaysia, Singapore, Indonesia (Sumatra, Java, and Bawean), and the western Philippines (Palawan and the Calamian Islands). It inhabits plantations, forest clearings, evergreen secondary forests, and forest edges.

It is fairly common throughout the Indian subcontinent and in the Himalayan foothills of India and southern Nepal. It is found in the plains in gardens and lightly wooded habitats.

It lives in coastal woodlands and tropical forests, ranging from India and Sri Lanka to south-western China, and from Myanmar south to Malaysia, Sumatra, and Borneo. It occurs at elevations of 700–4,000 m.

It has a distribution stretching discontinuously across temperate Europe, from Great Britain and the Iberian Peninsula eastwards to western Siberia. It is found in deciduous and mixed forests, and sometimes mature conifer plantations, at elevations of 0–2,400 m.

It occurs in north-western Africa from Morocco to Tunisia and Mauritania.

The range extends from the Indian state of Himachal Pradesh, Nepal, and south-eastern Tibet eastward to the east coast of China, Taiwan, and Korea, and southward to southern Assam, north-western Myanmar, and northern Vietnam. It occurs at elevations of 1,000–2,700 m.

It breeds in Israel, northeast Egypt, Jordan, and the Arabian Peninsula. Its habitat includes desert, semi-desert, rocky ravines, and palm groves. It nests in crevices and holes in cliffs.

It is found in shrubland and rocky areas of Oman, Iran and the United Arab Emirates.

It is found in western North America, ranging from British Columbia to Mexico. It occurs in a variety of hardwood and coniferous forest habitats, although it prefers closed-canopy, uneven-aged, late-successional, and old-growth forests.

It is distributed throughout most of the eastern United States, as well as much of southern Canada. Its habitat consists mainly of old deciduous and mixed forests, and occasionally coniferous

It occurs in three disjunct areas. The largest is along the Sierra Madre Oriental between San Luis Potosi in the north and Veracruz in the south. The next largest is a band from Durango south to Michoacán and the third is a relatively small area in Guerrero.

It is found in highland regions in the Mexican states of Chiapas and Oaxaca, Guatemala, Honduras, and El Salvador. It imnhabits in montane evergreen pine forests and humid pine-oak forests, and more generally within a cloud forest habitat.

It is found in south-eastern Brazil from Minas Gerais to Rio Grande do Sul, in south-eastern Paraguay, and in Argentina’s extreme north-eastern Misiones Province. It inhabits the interior and edges of a variety of wooded landscapes including montane, tropical evergreen, and temperate forest, at elevations up to 1,000 m.

It is found in southern South America, from Bolivia’s Santa Cruz Department south through western Paraguay into north-central Argentina. It inhabits the Gran Chaco, at elevations of 500–1,300 m.

It is found in Chile from Valparaíso Province and in far western Argentina from Mendoza Province south to the tip of Tierra del Fuego. It primarily inhabits moist old-growth forests with a closed canopy and dense understory, at elevations up to 2,000 m.

The breeding range extends as far west as much of Scandinavia, montane eastern Europe, and, sporadically, central Europe, thence sweeping across the Palearctic broadly through Russia to as far east as Sakhalin and throughout Japan.

It breeds in North America, from as far east as Quebec to the Pacific coast and Alaska. In Eurasia, its breeding range extends north to 52°N latitude, from Scandinavia east to the Anadyr Basin and along the coasts of the Sea of Okhotsk and the Sea of Japan.

It is found throughout much of sub-Saharan Africa. Its range extends from Senegal and The Gambia eastward to Ethiopia, and south to Angola, Botswana, and Zimbabwe. It is also inhabits in Mozambique and the Cape Province of South Africa.

It is native to Central and South America. Its range extends from Mexico south to Argentina and Brazil, occurring at elevations up to 2,500 m. It inhabits a variety of wooded habitats and plantations, as well as open countryside with scattered trees.

It is found in the Andes, from northern Venezuela south to western and southern Bolivia. It inhabits humid evergreen montane forest and cloud forests with a dense understory, epiphytes, and mosses, at elevations of 1,700–3,700 m.

Its natural habitats are varied subtropical or tropical forests ranging from lowlands to areas of medium altitude, and it has been found in Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, French Guiana, Guyana, Paraguay, Peru, Suriname, and Venezuela.

Its range extends from central Mexico south to the north-western section of Peru and western Colombia. It is mostly found in gallery forests and rainforests, but also occurs in wet deciduous and mangrove forests, at elevations of 0–2400 m.