ANATOMY OF BIRDS
GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION
MIGRATIONS OF BIRDS
CLASSIFICATION OF BIRDS
LIZARD-TAILED BIRD
AMERICAN TOOTHED-BIRDS
THE OSTRICHES
THE RHEAS
EMEUS AND CASSOWARIES
THE TINAMOUS
THE KIWIS
THE PENGUINS
LOONS AND GREBES
ALBATROSSES & PETRELS
STORK-LIKE BIRDS
GOOSE-LIKE BIRDS
FALCON-LIKE BIRDS
FOWL-LIKE BIRDS
CRANE-LIKE BIRDS
PLOVER-LIKE BIRDS
CUCKOO-LIKE BIRDS
THE ROLLER-LIKE BIRDS
SPARROW-LIKE BIRDS
Birds and Birding's Guide to:
Watching THE ROLLER-LIKE BIRDS
THE ROLLERS AND THEIR ALLIES
THE OWLS
Horned or Eagle Owls
The splendid Horned or Eagle Owls (Bubo) are typical of the largest of the groups (Bubonincz) into which the members of this subfamily are divided. They range in size from medium to very large, in fact among them are about the largest and most formidable representatives of the suborder.
They have a large head with conspicuously long ear-tufts and fully feathered tarsi, while the toes are sometimes bare or scantily feathered. The wings are relatively short, always falling short of the rounded tail by the length of the middle toe; the bill is short but very strong, and the claws are powerful and well curved, the inner being the longer.
The plumage is irregularly varied with buffy, tawny, or whitish and dusky in variable extent.
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