How to Identify Every Species of OWL in the UK!
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- čas přidán 4. 07. 2024
- In this video you will find ways to recognise all six species of owl that can be found in the UK and one bonus species that doesnt nest in the UK, but has done so in the past.
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Barn owl
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Tawny owl
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Short eared owl
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Long eared owl
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Snowy owl
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Love seeing these UK owls. Hearing and seeing owls is such an unexpected treat when it happens.
My aunt and uncle have a pair of great horned owls in their yard that will perform a haunting duet together in the evenings - I was lucky enough to hear it once while staying with them.
Wow, how lucky for them. That must be a brilliant thing to see and hear!
Never seen a tawny owl but I hear them on many nights of the year when I leave my bedroom window open. Barn Owls are magical, there is such a thrill if you see one perched on a post or flitting across the sky if you're driving somewhere late at night.
Thats often the case with Tawnys, heard but not seen. I agree, I saw a barn owl yesterday morning as the sun rose, a beautiful sight!
Fun fact: Barn owls used to be known as the Screech Owl. When you hear it you'll know why...
Yes I have heard their screeching. It can get very loud and can be scary if you don’t know what’s making the noise ❤
It's in the hobbit
Yes indeed! And when you hear one it is easy to see why, quite haunting if you have ever slept in a barn without knowing Barn owls are in there!
@@AShotOfWildlife you never did that!
True 😂
Was so lucky to catch sight of an eagle owl perched in a tree in my car headlights on a lonely lane up in Scotland near Pitlochry a few years ago. The ear-like tufts really caught my attention together with the size of it, definitely too large to have been a long-eared owl.
Awesome video again. Keep up the great work.
My partner makes an epic tawny owl sound through clasped hands, which I just can't do, but has had "conversations" with other tawny owls. It's so cool to listen in.
Thats a great skill they have! I am hoping to come across another eagle owl soon, someone has set me the challenge of trying to find and film every species so its going to need a whole bunch of luck!
Thanks for watching!
i love owls, hearing them gives me that countryside feel
I agree, there is something truly wild about them!
In December 2010, that really snowy winter, driving on the A46 just a few miles north of Lincoln, I was treated to the sight of a Snowy Owl, female I believe, flying just in front of me across the road. It was a beautiful sunny day with clear blue skies and shortly afterwards I saw, presumably the same owl, flying high above with the sun glinting of her feathers. It was a beautiful and unusual sight never to be forgotten.
Wow, how lucky! I have yet to see one in the wild but still hold out hope!
Beautiful photography. Your content is always first rate.
Thanks for watching!
Another great vlog, Liam on owls in UK. The little owls are my favourite ones, the least being the Eagle owls. They look huge and a bit scary! Thanks for sharing. 👍 😊
Thanks for watching. The time I found an eagle owl in the wild, it was not bothered by me being there at all and I was once attacked by a little owl when I worked at a wildlife rescue... I guess my opinion has been changed a bit by that.
@AShotOfWildlife yeah, Liam, can see how that would affect your opinion on little owls versus Eagle owls. Hope house move went well and are settling in. Best wishes. 👍 😃
Thank you!
I'm one of your subscribers Liam and enjoy your videos. You've forgotten about the 7th species of owls found in the UK. The one you've forgotten is the Teet. You will find them in every kitchen! Keep up the good work. David Larter
Ohhh dear David!
I must admit, I was vey tempted to include them as the 8th species but I have to draw the line somewhere lol. Cheers!
About five years ago, there was an escaped Eagle Owl around Wooton-Under-Edge in South Gloucestershire that many people came to see.
There was one right in the middle of Norwich last winter, but it soon vanished again.
Lovely video, I think my favourite is the Long-eared owl, they look quite spooky. Thanks for another great upload 🦉.
Thank you so much for watching and enjoying it!
Thank you, very nice and interesting 👍🙋
Thank you for watching!
Nice one Liam 👍
We’re blessed with Barn Owls where we live and they’re magnificent when in flight or calling each other. No surprise our house is called Owls Leat 😉
Oh wow, I get lucky seeing owls quite often but not too close to the house... or not yet at least!
Thank you!
this was indeed a hoot! what an excellent video.
i got very emotional some 9 years ago i saw my first in the wild, proper ban owl. i managed to sit still in the long grass, and he flew right past me a few times, as he was hunting in the field, i just cannot put into words how phenomenal it was, the silent flight, the grace and elegance - an evening i will never forget, for sure. and each time i saw them since, the same emotions, i jut never tire of seeing any wildlife.
Thats sounds amazing! They always seem to come out of nowhere, I am pretty good at finding wildlife but barn owls specifically always catch me by surprise. I know they are silent in flight but they are also pretty good at staying hidden whilst they are perched.
@@AShotOfWildlife yeah camouflage is strong when they are just sitting, for sure. always a good day when i can have a close encounter of the wild type
Great video thank you
Thank you for watching, I am glad you enjoyed it!
Hi Liam fantastic video absolutely love owls love the filming and close up of what you film like the little bit at the end keep up with your amazing work and videos Bernard
Liam your video is as always worth watching. Always enjoy them. Thank you
Thank you so much for watching Patricia!
Wonderful. Well done! Just found your channel, and enjoying it very much!
Cheers!
Brilliant! Welcome to the channel and I hope you find lots of videos that you enjoy here :)
The video is so cool. I'm rooting for you. Have a happy weekend
Thank you!
Nice one Liam, owls are my favourite birds
Cheers!
Geweldig om te zien.
Bedankt.
Groetjes Jacq
Thank you!
The short eared owl is my favourite. Id love to see the long eared owl though, stunning birds.
Cheers. Theres a place called deeping lakes in lincolnshire where long eared owls roost in the winter, I'm hoping to get up there soon and take a look at them.
@@AShotOfWildlife Hope you catch them.
Hey another great video,so calming watching the Barn Owl.Pair been nesting at Blackhall Farm near Hartlepool.Fab to watch
Thank you! Glad you have been lucky enough to watch them raising their family.
Someone in my village use to rescue owls that had been injured by cars etc, he had a large enclosure set up in his garden and would release them back into the wild when they had recovered.
I really like these all the *insert a group of animals* species found in the UK videos, whether they are introduced species or not.
Thank you. I will definitely be doing more videos like this over the coming months so stay tuned for those.
Fun Fact: The most common owl in the UK is the Teat.
Go into any kitchen in the UK and you'll find a drawer full of Teat Owls.
Ohhhhhhh goodness!
Likewise I've seen an Eagle Owl, but only once. It was near Padstow on the Camel estuary, and took me and the friend I was with by surprise because we thought it was just a branch of a dead tree until we got to about 50 yards away, when it took off and flew away. It was enormous !
How lucky. I am going to have to try to find another one this year as I have been challenged to try to find and film every species! Snowy owl will be quite a challenge too!
Yes that was a hoot Liam! 😂Owls are fantastic creatures. I often hear Tawny owls in the day time at our nature reserve however I never quite seem to see them. They are so hidden in the trees. Once saw a little owl and a barn owl in the wild but I think the rarity of seeing these birds makes them so special. Would love to see short and long eared owls in the wild one day. Thanks for a great video 👍☺️🙏
Great video, some interesting facts and straight to the point.
Please can you do a video with the owl species owls calls, we’ve got some lovely owl sounds in our back garden!
Thank you. I will add that to my list of future videos. I definitely missed a trick by not including their calls in this video to be honest!
That was very interesting we have tawny owls where I live we hear them most nights but have only seen two in the 15years we have lived here. One flew from a silver birch and flew over about 8 foot above my head. The second was sitting in the lane as I drove home one night it was obviously with its prey it looked magnificent in my headlights it turned looked at me and flew off into the darkness.
Thank you! Ive seen tawnys quite a few times now but more luck than judgement and a lot of being in the right place at the right time. One will feature in the next wildlife walk video thatll be out this weekend. Cheers
That was a good one. I really enjoyed. Love owls. Didn’t realise we had so many species here. I wish we would regenerate and enlarge our existing forests and woods with diverse native tree and shrub species in order to help wildlife
Perhaps one day we will find a way of feeding ourselves without taking up the whole countryside, stranger things have happened so fingers crossed!
The most popular owl in the UK is the teat.
Think about it.
Oh dear, I was only a little tempted to include them in the video to be fair!
If you want to visit the Knepp Castle estate in W Sussex, you can see (if you're lucky) all six of them - not to mention numerous storks gliding above the treetops.
This year, I am definitely going to visit Knepp!
@@AShotOfWildlife Yep, it's a treat - they've done a brilliant job re-wilding. Good for relaxed camping too. Firewood and "car wheel braziers" available, solar showers etc.. Though if you're cooking, organic farm shop's pretty pricey! - best to BYO. Cheers.
I remember one clear night lying on my back in a field to watch the stars and an owl flew over me to check me out, I couldn't see but a dark shadow but it was so close I felt the movement of the air, fascinating !!!
Hey liam its me Ciara im ur first veiw and first thumbs up! Loved the video!😊
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@@paulohara1502 thanks! I'm also his Niece if U don't believe me ask him
Thanks Ciara. I think people now know that you are my Niece :)
Ik I'm always the first like and veiw hehe
There are Tawney Owls where I live in north London. They live in the line of Plane trees along the top of the ridge on which I live. They are well outnumbered by crows and magpies but since they're nocturnal they don't bother each other. There are not many of them and I've never seen them but a mysterious 'something' followed me back overhead from the bus stop a few years ago.
Ohh, I wonder why it was following you?!
I think Tawnys are the most common urban owls for sure, and have seen them on various occasions in Norwich passing under the street lights.
@@AShotOfWildlife I guess it may have simply been going in same direction :-)
Love this channel Liam, I always learn something new!
Thank you so much!
I've seen all but two of those species in the wild. Not seen a LEO for years though. Had a roost of several of them in Lee Valley CP some years back. Snowy and Eagle are my two bogeys. Not holding my breath on either of those though! 👍🙂👍
Cheers Graham. The only 2 I havent seen are Long eared and Snowy. I'm sure I could tick of LE if I went looking for them soon but Snowy is definitely down to luck and right place at the right time. I hope your 2024 is off to a great start mate.
Another great informative video keep it up Liam 👍
Thank you for watching!
Thank you Liam. Owls have always been my favourites. I think they are all incredible. They fit perfectly into their environment and they have amazing features that never cease to amaze me. I have many many owl books on my bookshelves. Owls from all around the world. Wonderful video thank you ❤🦉🦉❤
Thank you, I am glad you enjoyed watching and hope you learnt something that maybe wasnt in the books (like my bad humour for example)
OMG the owls are just georgeousxx
Which one would you say was the best looking?
Definitely the barn owl as they are my favourite owlsxx@@AShotOfWildlife
Owls are beautiful.
Have seen a few at a sanctuary.
Have heard a few in the wild whilst walking my dog at 4.30 am and seen a couple in flight spooked by me walking past but
never in good light.
I agree, I get lucky enough to see them some mornings when driving or walking through the countryside.
Love owls and all birds of prey. Great video.
Thank you!
Absolutely beautiful 😍 thank you 🙏
Thank you!
Hi Liam, love owls. Not seen eagle or little owls yet, long eared I use to see in Germany it came every evening into the walnut tree, just lovely. Thanks for sharing.
Thank you! I have heard that there are lots of long eared owls in Berlin in the winter and would love to visit and see them there myself one day.
Great video Liam … as always 🦉 Thank you 🙏
Thank you!
Great video about a owl, thanks
Glad you enjoyed it
Thank you Liam !!!
Thank you!
Owls scar me a lot. They look very intimidating , they are big and are awake at night making spooky noises.
Theres no reason to be afraid of them though, they dont pose any danger to people unless you try to touch them.
Wonderful video!
Thank you!
Another great video.
Thank you!
Aren’t they such beautiful creatures
Thanks Liam top notch 👍🏼
Yes, every single species is quite pretty in its own way. Thank you!
A fascinating rundown of all our owls and lovely footage too. I have been lucky enough to have seen and photographed barn, little, tawny and short-eared, so just the long eared to go, and perhaps the eagle owl although I don't really expect to ever see one of those in the wild.
Never say never, only earlier today I found out that there is an Eagle owl in some woods not too far from where I live, so they are about. Just have to keep your ears to the ground and hope that you get lucky, fingers crossed!
@@AShotOfWildlife That's fantastic - hope you manage to see it sometime. I will definitely keep my ears and eyes open too!
All beautiful birds and all beautiful in their own right . Great info Liam. I don't have a fav one. They are all my favourites.
Brilliant! Thank you for watching Paul.
Very well done Liam. I love owls. I never knew that there was an eagle owl. It’s gorgeous! They are all gorgeous! Nothing to be afraid of except if you’re a small dog or a small rodent, lol. Here in the USA we have a lot of very large birds. We have the owls (I saw a baby snow owl once, beautiful just beautiful), eagles, buzzards, hawks, etc.. the thing that gets me is sometimes when watching a show that’s from the UK there’s a really creepy sounding bird at night. I have no idea what it is but it makes a really loud weird sound. Do you have any idea of what it could be? I don’t even know how to describe its sound other than it’s very unusual. Would really like to know what that is.
Thanks Donna. I am sorry to say I cannot help you with the mysterious noise but if the next time I watch a night time show I hear the noise I will come back here and let you know what I think it is.
@@AShotOfWildlife 😃 Thank you I appreciate that. If I think of one of the shows that I heard it I will mention it here too.
We had an Eagle owl living in South shields for several years .
I first saw it in September 2011 at cleadon Hills at night .
From nowhere it was upon me swooping down , I was terrorfied, I tried to run and duck and it actually ripped my coat at the back .
It landed on a stone wall and was hooting for a bit before flying off .
I seen it a couple of more times in 2012 and 2014 .
When I walked the area through the day I used to see the odd kestrel or sparrow hawk which had been shredded , like they had been picked apart ,I assumed the owl had got them but who knows .
When the owl swooped on me I wonder if it was trying to land on me due to it being an escapee ?
I actually got some video footage of it at night quite close sitting on a stone wall , it used to be on CZcams but never got any views so I took it down lol
Thats crazy. I do wonder if it was trying to land on you as you say, I dont expect it would be deliberately attacking you and was probably trying to be friendly... Probably! I wonder what happened to it in the end.
@@AShotOfWildlife I was worried it wanted to eat my Yorkshire terrier , she was tiny and probably looked like a tasty snack lol
@@AShotOfWildlife hi I uploaded a small video of it I got in 2012 with a camcorder.
Its on my youtube if your interested cheers.
I have another bit of footage from 2011 somewhere ,I just need to find it lol
I will take a look, thanks!
Thanks Liam .I enjoy all of your videos
They are very informative.let us know when baby arrives.all the best Peter Ford.
Thanks Peter. I definitely will let everyone know when my wildlife apprentice (she will get no choice in the matter) arrives!
Super video
Thank you for watching!
I saw a little owl once when I was on a night run out in the countryside - it was on the path where I was running and I saw what I initially thought was a stone in the light of my head torch - then it fluttered away and I realized what I'd seen!
Hiiiii ❤❤❤❤ thank uuuuu
Thanks for watching!
I love owls
Great, I hope you enjoyed the video then.
It's always surprising to hear how much some birds weight. They are all floof and feathers and not weight at all really.
Yes! I used to work at a wildlife rescue and sometimes we would think the owls had gone missing, but instead they had just stood upright and looked like twigs! They are very skinny without their feathers.
@@AShotOfWildlife Tell me about it! I'm colourblind and I love wild life but if it doesn't move I can't see it.
I'm hopeless with colours but unbeatable on movement.
Owls, birds of prey and snakes are the most difficult for me to spot.
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I've heard owls in the late afternoon... it shocked me to hear an owl in broad daylight
So funny and interesting ❤❤❤❤🎉🎉🎉🎉
Cheers!
A hoot ... keep the dad jokes coming 😊
Haha, glad you appreciated that!
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Thanks for watching!
i saw a small owl on a fence post and went straight past it without it flying off, though i think it was a short eared owl not a little owl. i hear tawny owls in the woods behind my home and sometimes the few trees in front vary often (i always think the males have a lisp saying w instead of r twue ) i have seen countless barn owls, but one somerset evening, there were over 100 swans on the king sedgmore drain, sunset beautiful red sky and a pair of barn owls flew really low over the swans one after the other really slowly. one of the most beautifull experiances of my life.
What a brilliant encounter, it sounds truly beautiful and is something very few people have got to see, lucky you!
Thank you for watching and for sharing your experience!
A good place in Norfolk to see little owls in daytime is the trees In front of north tuddenhsm church
There was a resident Eagle-Owl living locally. Not sure if it's still around, though.
Where is locally? I need to find one at some point this year for a video challenge someone has set me.
@@AShotOfWildlife I'm not going to give a location on the internet, because there are too many nutters around.
"West of Birmingham" is about as close as I'll give you.
Dont worry, I wasnt asking for specifics. If I travel up that way some point this year, I might contact you directly for more details if thats okay.
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1:47. See ya!
He just disappeared into the night!
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Thank you!
I thought l spotted a snowy owl in a semi rural part of Fife Scotland. It just seemed too large to be a barn owl. I know they can be incredibly nomadic. Any thoughts.
How many owls would you have to see before you became suspicious?
Its such a weird question, but I would say 6 or 7.... I have seen 4 once and that was just a lucky day.
The most common species of owl in the uk is the teet owl
Oh dear!
Lovely video Liam, but the puns need a bit of work.
Hoo says my puns need some work?
Bubo Bubo
I didnt know that about lil owls that they are foreigners to this country .
They are but they naturalised so well and with other species that some believe that they were once native to britain and were made extinct. Which is believable saying how common they are in mainland europe.
Also i believe fossils were found in britain.
Hmm, I havent heard about fossils being found but thats very interesting and definitely something I will look into when I get some spare time. Thank you both for watching!
@@AShotOfWildlife they have brought some birds and animals back from other countries .
Can i set you a challenge of getting each species of owl on film?
I'm always up for a challenge... but what are the rules? How long would I have to achieve it?
@AShotOfWildlife no rules mate just get them all on film, would take a bit of time I think with the LEO and SEO only in certain areas at certain times of year I think
If sort eared owls come here from Scandinavia surely they cross the North Sea not the Channel?
Yes, that was a mistake of my geography... I thought the sea between England and Europe was all known as the channel whilst being part of the north sea.
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Thanks!
A small dog 😂😂😂😂
Yeah, its a pretty vague description to be fair!
@@AShotOfWildlife any cross species comparisons are welcome
We shouldnt be able to go out of our houses for owls
Owls that then?
re Short Eared owl migrants - surely they cross the North Seas - not the Channel...
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