Magellanic Horned Owl Facts

Name: Magellanic Horned Owl
Scientific Name: Bubo Magellanicus
Family: Strigidae
Order: n/a
Size: It measures between 45 and 55 cm
Weight: n/a

Description:
Rounded body. Its back has plumage with patches of ocher, brown and white. Neck and throat white with ocher ring. It has 2 patches of feathers behind the eyes that seem ears. No apparent sexual dimorphism.

Reproduction:
Puts between 2 and 4 eggs in tree or rock holes.

Distribution:
All Chile

Residence:
All year

Features:
Night Hunter, sharp vision and silent flight.

Food:
Carnivore eats rodents.

Habitat:
oOen, shrub-steppe.