A burrowing owl tilts its head to have a look outside its burrow on Marco Island, Florida. #

A short-eared owl flies straight toward the photographer while searching for food. #

A western screech owl rests in a tree. #

Portrait of a great gray owl #

Two long-eared owl chicks play in the grass during sunrise at a wildlife sanctuary near the village of Vygonoshchi, Belarus. #

A great horned owl sits in a nest framed by Spanish moss in central Florida. #

Portrait of a snowy owl #

A woman with an owl, which poses for pictures with tourists, uses her cellphone as they wait for clients in central Kyiv, Ukraine. #

An owl hunts for fish. #

Two members of a family of owls, in Los Angeles, California #

A close view of a buffy fish owl, or Malay fish owl #

A man flashes the "V" sign as he drives a motorcycle with his owl and dog in Rio's Rocinha favela in Brazil. #

An eagle owl is seen in an enclosure at a falcon center of the All-Russian Research Institute of Environmental Protection in Moscow. #

A scops owl sleeps in a tree trunk at the Kirindy forest reserve near the city of Morondava, Madagascar. #

A snowy owl perches in the sand on Jones Beach in Long Island, New York. #

Portrait of an owl, in profile #

An owl perches at the Familia Geisse vineyard in Pinto Bandeira, Rio Grande do Sul state, Brazil. #

A short-eared owl hunts for voles in Swindon, Wiltshire, England. #

A snowy owl chick sits on tundra. #

A pearl-spotted owlet peers out of a hole in a tree. #

An Asian barred owlet is harassed by a parakeet as it sits atop a tree in Dharamsala, India. #

Two burrowing owls, a chick and an adult, share a tender moment in south Florida. #

A ferruginous pygmy owl rests on a branch. #

A barn owl comes in for a landing somewhere in the Rio Grande Valley in Texas. #

A pallid scops owl that was rescued by two students in Bortala, Xinjiang, China. #

A spotted wood owl looks down toward the photographer. #

A great horned owl, photographed in the sunshine. #