STRIGIFORMES: Strigidae

Ninox strenua  

Powerful Owl (Ninox strenua)
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© Geoff Walker 2009
Mount Coot-tha, QLD (Apr, 2009)

They are quite simply unafraid and stare at you with unwavering gaze, their eyelids closing to narrow slits as they sit with monolithic stillness.

Powerful Owl (Ninox strenua)

Powerful Owl eating a possum

Powerful Owl (Ninox strenua)

Powerful Owl

Powerful Owl (Ninox strenua)

Powerful Owl

Powerful Owl (Ninox strenua)

Young Powerful Owl eating a bat

Powerful Owl (Ninox strenua)

Young Powerful Owl

Powerful Owl (Ninox strenua)

Powerful Owl

Powerful Owl (Ninox strenua)

Powerful Owl

Powerful Owl (Ninox strenua)

Powerful Owl

Powerful Owl (Ninox strenua)

Powerful Owl

Powerful Owl (Ninox strenua)

Young Powerful Owl

Powerful Owl (Ninox strenua)

Female Powerful Owl

Powerful Owl (Ninox strenua)

Powerful Owl

Powerful Owl (Ninox strenua)

Powerful Owl

Powerful Owl (Ninox strenua)

Powerful Owl

Powerful Owl (Ninox strenua)

Powerful Owl and friend!

Powerful Owl (Ninox strenua)

Young Powerful Owl

Powerful Owl (Ninox strenua)

Powerful Owl

Powerful Owl (Ninox strenua)

Powerful Owl