Tawny Owl by danob
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Description
Description: There are two basic colour types of Tawny Owls, one being rich chestnut-brown, the other having greys instead of deep browns. Intermediate birds are variously tawny-buff, buff-brown or greyish-brown in coloration.
The upperparts of the brown birds are of a rich tawny or sometimes a more tawny-chestnut hue, streaked, mottled and vermiculated with dark brown and blackish-brown, and mottled with lighter brown or tawny-buff. Bands of buff or whitish-buff mottling run back and outwards across the crown from the central upper edge of the facial disc. Black-brown mottling adjacent to these bands usually highlights this pattern. The shoulders are variably tipped and edged whitish, forming ragged pale 'braces'. The face is either pale rufous-buff, or deep buff with a tinge of rufous. The semi-circles and narrow ring surrounding the eyes are buff. The facial ruff is densely flecked and edged dark brown, forming a very narrow, dark edge to the facial disc. The bill is pale olive-yellow and the very large eyes have bluish-black irises.
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borsy
Excellent image!!!