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What the Ural Owl sounds like
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Like most Strix species, it has a broad, rounded head with a correspondingly round facial disc, barring a tiny V-shaped indentation. The Ural owl has, for an owl, an exceptionally long tail that bears a wedge-shaped tip. In colour, it tends to be a plain pale greyish-brown to whitish overall (with more detailed description of their variation under subspecies), with a slightly darker grey-brown to brown back and mantle with contrasting whitish markings.
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When to see the Ural Owl
One bar for each month. Filled bars are the 9 months with records; pale bars are months with none. The wide bar is March, the month with the most records.
Where to see the Ural Owl
The map shades 16 countries with regular records, and 6 more in a lighter tone where the bird turns up only as a stray. Everything unshaded has no records. Countries are listed below the map.
Recorded as a rare visitor in Norway, Germany, Czechia, Kazakhstan, Bosnia & Herzegovina, Bulgaria.
About the Ural Owl
The Ural owl is a large nocturnal owl. It is a member of the true owl family, Strigidae. The Ural owl is a member of the genus Strix, that is also the origin of the family's name under Linnaean taxonomy. Both its common name and scientific name refer to the Ural Mountains of Russia where the type specimen was collected. However, this species has an extremely broad distribution that extends as far west as much of Scandinavia, montane eastern Europe, and, sporadically, central Europe, thence sweeping across the Palearctic broadly through Russia to as far east as Sakhalin and throughout Japan.
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Easily confused with
Mottled OwlStrix virgataThe mottled owl is a medium-sized owl with adults reaching 280 to 355 mm (11 to 14 in) in length.
Great Grey OwlStrix nebulosaAdults have large, rounded heads with grey faces and yellow eyes with darker circles around them.
Black-and-white OwlStrix nigrolineataThe black-and-white owl is a medium-sized owl with a round head and no ear tufts.
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