Prakruti Parichay
StrigidaeStrix

Brown Wood Owl

Strix leptogrammica

47–53 cmLarge
Beak
—
Feet
—
Crest
No crest

Resident. Himalayas. NE India. Eastern and Western Ghats. Bangladesh and Sri Lanka. From Mottled by uniform upperparts (with patch of white barring on scapulars), and whitish or bullish underparts finely barred with brown; flight feathers are dark brown and narrowly barred paler brown. imalayan S. I. newarensis has dark brown face. with prominent white eyebrows. and striking white band across foreneck. Underparts are greyish-white heavily barred with dark brown. S. I. indranee (peninsula) is smaller with rufous facial discs. Upperparts are more heavily barred, and underparts a rebullish and barred with brown. Dense broadleaved sub tropical or temperate forest.

Colour

BrownWhite
Average size
50 cm
Habitat
Dense broadleaved sub tropical or temperate forest.
Behaviour
Resident., imalayan S. I. newarensis has dark brown face. with prominent white eyebrows. and striking white band across foreneck. Underparts are greyish-white heavily barred with dark brown. S. I. indranee (peninsula) is smaller with rufous facial discs. Upperparts are more heavily barred, and underparts a rebullish and barred with brown.

About this bird

Resident. Himalayas. NE India. Eastern and Western Ghats. Bangladesh and Sri Lanka. From Mottled by uniform upperparts (with patch of white barring on scapulars), and whitish or bullish underparts finely barred with brown; flight feathers are dark brown and narrowly barred paler brown. imalayan S. I. newarensis has dark brown face. with prominent white eyebrows. and striking white band across foreneck. Underparts are greyish-white heavily barred with dark brown. S. I. indranee (peninsula) is smaller with rufous facial discs. Upperparts are more heavily barred, and underparts a rebullish and barred with brown. Dense broadleaved sub tropical or temperate forest.

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Brown Wood Owl is bigger than Great Crested Grebe but smaller than Cattle Egret.

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Brown Wood Owl

Strix leptogrammica

47–53 cm