The Great Horned Owl

The Great Horned Owl

Flaying Animal | The Great Horned Owl | Great Horned Owls can vary in colour from a reddish brown to a grey or black and white. The underside is a light grey with dark bars and a white band of feathers on the upper breast. They have large, staring yellow-orange eyes, bordered in most races by an orange-buff facial disc. The name is derived from tufts of feathers that appear to be "horns" which are sometimes referred to as "ear tufts" but have nothing to do with hearing at all. The large feet are feathered to the ends of the toes, and the immature birds resemble the adults. Females are 10 to 20% larger than males.

The Snowy Owl

The Snowy Owl

 

Flaying Animal | The Snowy Owl | The ghostlike snowy owl has unmistakable white plumage that echoes its Arctic origins. The Snowy Owl (Bubo scandiacus) is a large owl of the typical owl family Strigidae. The Snowy Owl was first classified in 1758 by Carolus Linnaeus, the Swedish naturalist who developed binomial nomenclature to classify and organize plants and animals. The bird is also known in North America as the Arctic Owl, Great White Owl or Harfang.

The Great Grey Owl

The Great Grey Owl

Flaying Animal | The Great Grey Owl | This is the largest bird of the owl, but very light weight, similar to the Wedge-Tailed Eagle Australia. Great horned owls are adaptable birds and live from the Arctic to South America. They are at home in suburbia as well as in woods and farmlands. Northern populations migrate in winter, but most live permanently in more temperate climes.

The Eurasia Eagle Owl

The Eurasia Eagle Owl

Flaying Animal | The Eurasia Eagle Owl |  The upperparts are brown-black and tawny-buff, showing as dense freckling on the forehead and crown, stripes on the nape, sides and back of the neck, and dark splotches on the pale ground colour of the back, mantle and scapulars. A narrow buff band, freckled with brown buff, runs up from the base of the bill, above the inner part of the eye and along the inner edge of the black-brown, "ear-tufts". The Eagle Owl has a wingspan of 138–200 cm (55–79 in) and measures 58–75 cm (23–30 in) long. Females weigh 1.75-4.5 kg (3.9-10 lbs) and males weigh 1.5-3.2 kg (3.3-7 lbs).

Copsychus interpositus

Copsychus interpositus

Flaying Animal | Copsychus interpositus | One of the melodious sound of birds in the world. Race stricklandii (together with barbouri) commonly treated as a separate species, but intergrades with suavis over a zone of almost 300 km wide.

Black shama

Copsychus cebuensis

Flaying Animal | Copsychus cebuensis | Black shama | The black shama is a medium-sized bird with entirely black plumage. The male has a dark bluish sheen to its plumage, whilst the female is a little more blackish grey, and smaller than the male. The tail is long and graduated, the bill is black and the eyes are dark brown. Juveniles are greyer with browner wings . The black shama’s song is a rich, varied series of melodious whistles, and it is also known to mimic the sounds of other birds

White-vented Shama

White-vented Shama

Flaying Animal | White-vented Shama | Copsychus niger  | The White-vented Shama (Copsychus niger) is a species of bird in the Muscicapidae family. It is endemic to the Philippines. Population justification The global population size has not been quantified, but the species is described as uncommon, although perhaps locally common. Trend justification The population is suspected to be in decline owing to ongoing habitat destruction.