Photo by Suvro Dey [Facebook]
I don’t know if we’ve featured this owl before. Also known as the Brown Boobook. This owl reaches from India to China and Indonesia.
From Owl Pages:
The Brown Hawk Owl feeds mainly on large insects such as beetles and grasshoppers, but also frogs, lizards, small birds, mice and occasionally small insectivorous bats or crabs. They hunt at dusk using a perch on a tree stump or post to look for prey. They have been observed jumping up to take a passing insect in the claws, and hawking insects in the air like a nightjar.
A pretty bird with striking eyes. I think I read that burrowing owls eat insects, but I didn’t know bigger owls did too.
Brown Hawk comes in a bit bigger, at 13 in / 32 cm, and Burrow is listed as 10 in / 25 cm.
Looks like the average Barn Owl is a pretty good size comparisonbat 14 in / 36 cm.
They must have bigger bugs over in Asia.