Barred owl,Strix varia.
Common permanent resident in extensive tracts of mature forest.
Long-eared Owl,Asio otus.
October 18 to April 4. Rare winter visitor. Albert Lano, an early day Fayetteville ornithologist,
considered this species to be a fairly common winter visitor (Black 1933). In the University of
Arkansas Museum collection there are four of these owls, collected from Benton and Washington
Counties, in 1924, 1925, 1930, and 1935. Douglas James found four birds and collected one in a
pine grove east of Rogers on April 4, 1959.
Short-eared Owl,Asio flammeus.
November 1 to March 25. Rare winter visitor. An "invasion" involvinq the period between December 4
and March 25 in Benton County was said to have been a response "to a heavy infestation of cotton
rats" (Baerg 1951). At Siloam Springs, Joe and Vivian Stockton received and provided care for birds
injured after impacts with automobiles in 1980, 1982, and 1985. These birds were from Springdale
and from Carroll County. An injured bird was found on the east side of Fayetteville on November 1,
1985. A single bird was seen during a snow storm at Rogers on December 15, 1987.
Northern Saw-whet Owl,Aegolius acadicus.
A single bird was near Shores Lake in the Ozark National Forest of Franklin County on January 30, 1967.