Common Barn-Owl,Tyto alba.
One report for Washington County was published by Baerg (1951). A specimen was collected
near Rogers in the summer of 1958. A single bird was seen at Sonora in Washington County
on April 2, 1957. A bird was seen during summer on a study site in Benton County (as reported
in Shugart and James 1973).
Eastern Screech-Owl,Otus asio.
Common permanent resident. Adults with fledglings have been seen flying at dusk in Fayetteville
in late May and early June on several occasions in the early 1980s. These birds can be found
almost anywhere in the region where there is a good supply of the large, old trees with holes
or cavities suitable for nesting and daytime resting. Screech owls in the Arkansas Ozarks include
the dark plumaged birds associated with northern populations and the red plumaged birds associated
with southern populations.
Great Horned Owl,Bubo virginianus.
Fairly common permanent resident seen or heard where broken woods are mixed with open farmlands.
In the Arkansas Ozarks the species has been found nesting in old Redtailed Hawk nests on several
occasions. A Red-tailed Hawk nest used by the hawks in spring 1982 was used by Great Horned Owls
in the following two years. The nesting season commences in January. At Lake Fayetteville in 1983
an adult was seen on the nest on January 22, two hatchlings were seen on January 29, and the young
birds were climbing out of the nest by February 27.