The goggle-eyed Cuban screech owl gets its other common name, bare-legged owl, from its featherless lower appendages. While most of the world’s more than 200 owl species wear feathers down to ...

and long legs. Burrowing owls are sandy colored on the head, back, and upperparts of the wings, and their under-parts are thickly spotted with whites and buffs. Adult females are slightly smaller and ...