Photos by Sal DeFini
Eastern Screech Owls. Red Morph is Mom, Grey Morph is Dad. Chicks down deep in the nest under mom. Right now it’s sleepy time.
Photos by Sal DeFini
Eastern Screech Owls. Red Morph is Mom, Grey Morph is Dad. Chicks down deep in the nest under mom. Right now it’s sleepy time.
The typical ways to try and ID sex visually is females are generally the larger ones, a bit more aggressive, and will sometimes have a slightly different shade of coloring, but since all of those things have a range of variation, none are very reliable. Nesting is what really gives the only accurate indication other than genetic analysis, since there the gender roles are well established.