We have seen 3 of these within 1/2 on the neighbors place .Wife took this today . What species ?

Great grey owl , it is Manitoba's provincial bird

Curious to see what others say....

Maybe Great Grey???

Lenz says, Great Gray

Looks like a great grey to me too.
We don’t have them here. Got a lot of barred owls, great horned owls, and a few screech owls.
Barn owls too.
My favorite here are the barred owls. In early evenings and mornings a few of those start whooping and hollering through our wooded area, back and forth. Sometimes they make eerie sounds almost like monkeys. Pretty cool bird. Most owls are good to have around. Take out a ton of mice and rats.
Jim

Had barred owls at my camp, once, when dragging a deer at dusk through the woods, had one following, tree to tree...would swoop down and almost touch my head and alight in another tree ahead of me....never heard a sound, lol, a little eerie but cool. It quit when I left the trees. Curious little guys!

Very nice.Love hearing owls

I figured "great" equated to large?

That one does not look any bigger than one of our barred owls. Juvenile maybe?

All I could tell you is that it is an owl
I could ID any of our main 4 down here though.
Screech, barn, barred, great horned

Not almost like monkeys, JUST like monkeys lol.

I've been around barred owls all my life, but had never experienced that until 5 or 6 years ago. I was coon hunting alone and it was late, probably one in the morning and I had just dropped my dog in the middle of nowhere on federal land..... no houses, no cars, no people, nothing. I was on the dirt road, leaning against my truck, waiting for the dog to open.

All of a sudden, as though someone had flipped a switch, the silent woods exploded into shrieks and screeches like some door to hades had just been opened and a band of demons had been released. I imagine like coyotes, a few can sound like a lot, but it sounded like there were dozens of them, lol. My heart was hammering in my chest and my first rational thought was no, not demons... monkeys! Those are monkeys I'm hearing! Creepiest sounding thing I'd ever heard. I wanted to get in the truck and leave, but I wasn't gonna leave my dog to certain death-by-demon-monkey! All of this happened in a space of just a minute or so and by that time I was hearing some clear hoots mixed in with the screaming. Finally I realized it was some type of owl. So the hunt went on and I think we found a coon there that night, but it was certainly an experience that stuck with me, LOL.

Ohio has like 8 diff type of owls or something. I didn't realize the great horned owl (a pretty large bird) is the only one that goes WHOO WHOO. The other 7 birds screetch and carry on in some annoying manner or another. Anyway, maybe you didn't know that either. I thought it was interesting.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DFKv6Z3X32E

I don't know about all the rest of them, OHBoy, but barred owls hoot. I listen to them every evening. Who, who, who-who-who-whooooo

I don't know anything about owls but the great horned sounds more who who to me. Your barred owl is close I guess typically I've heard it more like this. Makes sense I mean I guess they make more than one noise right? lol. Your link was closer to a who than i expected though.

1:00 mark for great horned
2:00 mark for barred.
3:30 mark for barn.
4:15 mark for screech.
5:35 mark for saw-whet.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u--6YLvrJRc

If an owl lands in a nearby tree when you are deer hunting, watch where the owl is looking. You get to use it to locate movements in the woods.

That saw-whet sounds like some sort of frog, lol.

I saw one of those squirrel hunting once. Tiny little thing. Let me walk right up to it, sitting at eye level in some brush.

The great grey owls I've seen are larger than that. It's hard to judge the size in the photo, though. We have them in northern MN. I think they are the largest of owls in MN.

Base on this chart, it seems like the owl in the original photo is a barred owl, not a great gray. But, it's a nice photo regardless.

Great Gray Owl, nothing else has that face and feather pattern.

Put one in a bag, then we'll talk.... lol




That little jerk on the right was downright mean.

If you ever go out to catch prairie rattlers in the spring around prairie dog towns, and one of those little burrowing owls comes out of a hole about mach 42 your heart will beat faster.

Have had Barred Owl's raise clutches out back for like 6-7 years now, and I really love it when 5-6 of them start chuckling to each other in the evening.

I do really appreciate your responses .We saw one last summer that was bigger . I did not know the name ! thanks

Great post. I tell one to bring it up years and I do mean years ago were I was stationed we had a research project were some people built barn owl boxes and put them in the two big red barns. Placed barn owls in the barn both boxes produced young fledglings. They fly around my yard at night. Fun to watch if you could handle the mosquitoes. I miss those old red barns. Few still standing. Anyway the monkey faced owls became road kill bait and all the locals would give people my address and they were brought to my house. I call the federal agents and he pick them up. Tell him we’re dead bird was and he make the drive as most of the time I was not home and out farming or something related to job. Love those old red barns and the monkey faced owls. Like owls but not my favorite bird. Story for a different post

Owls are delicious.

Super cool pics, Clayton.

Clayton that is cool .thanks

Great Grey Owl. Lotsa them where I trap. Some good pictures on this thread. I think owls are fascinating.

I just ordered $500 worth of barn owl nesting boxes but I need a ton more. Any suggestions would be appreciated.