![]() Primaries and secondaries are also chocolate-brown, inconspicuously barred ochre. The back, mantle and wing-coverts are a uniform chocolate-brown. ![]() Crown and nape are chocolate-brown, indistinctly streaked ochre. The cere is dull green or greenish-brown, and the bill is bluish-black with a paler tip. The eyes are bright yellow and have a narrow dark area around them. The facial disc is brown, with many narrow whitish radially orientated streaks. It is also known as the Oriental Hawk Owl or the Brown Boobook. The Brown Hawk Owl is a dark brown, medium sized hawk-like owl with a round head and no ear-tufts. This owl is quite common in towns and cities like Colombo, Sri Lanka as well as suburban areas close to buildings. The call is a repeated low soft, musical oo-uk. It feeds mainly on large insects, frogs, lizards, small birds, and mice. This species is very nocturnal but it can often be located by the small birds that mob it while it is roosting in a tree. The underparts are whitish with reddish-brown streaking, although the subspecies found in the Andaman Islands has dark brown underparts. The upperparts are dark brown, with a barred tail. The brown hawk-owl is a medium-sized (32 cm) owl with a hawk-like shape due to its long tail and lack of a distinct facial disk. However after my 1 hour plus night walk, I return to the same tree and there it was again.Īlso known as the brown boobook, is an owl which is a resident breeder in south Asia from India, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh and Nepal, Malaysia, east to western Indonesia and south China. I took a couple of shots and it flew to another nearby tree, I took a few more shots, it qucikly flew away. One the second day it was perching on the same tree. I was very lucky, one the first night my friend took a picture of it, just 1 shot and it flew away.
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