How We Found Hoot:

My Mom and Dad saw a barred owl perching in a tree. They told me about it and we downloaded a bird identification app to see what kind of bird it was. Since it was dark and we couldn’t see the owl clearly, our description was a little off-track. We thought it was a Great_Horned_Owl, but it wasn’t. It didn’t have the “ear” tufts.

A few days later, we saw the owl again. I named him Hoot. This time, my Dad took a photo of the him. We checked the app again, and it was either a Barred Owl, Wood Duck or a Cooper’s Hawk. Was it a wood duck? I think not. And it was the body shape of an owl, not a hawk. Voila, a barred owl!

About Barred Owls:

The Barred Owl’s hooting call, “Who cooks for you? Who cooks for you-all?” is a classic sound of old forests and treed swamps. But this attractive owl, with soulful brown eyes and brown-and-white-striped plumage, can also pass completely unnoticed as it flies noiselessly through the dense canopy or snoozes on a tree limb.

For more about Barred Owls, check The Cornell Lab of Ornithology

 

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