A special Sunday event: our fourth annual photographic essay celebrating these magnificent birds of prey. These nocturnal hunters hail from Europe, Asia, North America, and South America, and are captured here in photos from recent years. If you have some time today before the big game (or are skipping the event entirely), I invite you to take a look; it’s always a hoot to put this together.
Superb Owl Sunday IV
- Alan Taylor
- February 2, 2020
- 28 Photos
- In Focus
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Read moreA burrowing owl tilts its head to have a look outside its burrow on Marco Island, Florida. #
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Read moreA short-eared owl flies straight toward the photographer while searching for food. #
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Read moreA western screech owl rests in a tree. #
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Read morePortrait of a great gray owl #
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Read moreTwo long-eared owl chicks play in the grass during sunrise at a wildlife sanctuary near the village of Vygonoshchi, Belarus. #
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Read moreA great horned owl sits in a nest framed by Spanish moss in central Florida. #
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Read morePortrait of a snowy owl #
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Read moreA woman with an owl, which poses for pictures with tourists, uses her cellphone as they wait for clients in central Kyiv, Ukraine. #
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Read moreAn owl hunts for fish. #
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Read moreTwo members of a family of owls, in Los Angeles, California #
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Read moreA close view of a buffy fish owl, or Malay fish owl #
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Read moreA man flashes the "V" sign as he drives a motorcycle with his owl and dog in Rio's Rocinha favela in Brazil. #
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Read moreAn eagle owl is seen in an enclosure at a falcon center of the All-Russian Research Institute of Environmental Protection in Moscow. #
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Read moreA scops owl sleeps in a tree trunk at the Kirindy forest reserve near the city of Morondava, Madagascar. #
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Read moreA snowy owl perches in the sand on Jones Beach in Long Island, New York. #
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Read morePortrait of an owl, in profile #
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Read moreAn owlet is fed chicken livers before being released into the wild in Uşak, Turkey. The baby owl was treated by Uşak's Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, after being found injured. #
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Read moreAn owl perches at the Familia Geisse vineyard in Pinto Bandeira, Rio Grande do Sul state, Brazil. #
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Read moreA short-eared owl hunts for voles in Swindon, Wiltshire, England. #
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Read moreA snowy owl chick sits on tundra. #
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Read moreA pearl-spotted owlet peers out of a hole in a tree. #
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Read moreAn Asian barred owlet is harassed by a parakeet as it sits atop a tree in Dharamsala, India. #
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Read moreTwo burrowing owls, a chick and an adult, share a tender moment in south Florida. #
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Read moreA ferruginous pygmy owl rests on a branch. #
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Read moreA barn owl comes in for a landing somewhere in the Rio Grande Valley in Texas. #
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Read moreA pallid scops owl that was rescued by two students in Bortala, Xinjiang, China. #
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Read moreA spotted wood owl looks down toward the photographer. #
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Read moreA great horned owl, photographed in the sunshine. #
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