Think you can win a staring contest with one of these? With piercing yellow eyes against a grey-brown face, spotted owlets are often seen when small birds spot them during the day and mob them. Once located, these primarily nocturnal owls will often stare down intruders, bob their heads and emit a loud "chirurrr-chirurrr-chirurrr" screech, or what"s sometimes described as laughter or chuckling.
Spotted owlet, Bangkok, Thailand
Today in History
More Desktop Wallpapers:
-
Glenariff Forest Park, County Antrim, Ireland
-
Angry bird, doting dad
-
A different kind of toucan
-
Tiger siblings in Jim Corbett National Park, Uttarakhand, India
-
The white trilliums in Ontario, Canada
-
Bristol International Balloon Fiesta
-
Happy World Whale Day!
-
Baia del Silenzio in Sestri Levante, Italy
-
La Rocque Harbour, Jersey
-
Happy Cinco de Mayo!
-
Happy Cousins Day!
-
King of the jungle? Nope
-
Medieval towers in Mestia, Upper Svaneti, Georgia
-
World Architecture Day
-
Oktoberfest begins
-
A gorge-ous place to drop in
-
Christmas flowers
-
Picture perfect
-
Female pyrrhuloxia in Texas, USA
-
Waterborne wizardry
-
More of a moustache than a beard?
-
Lake Bled, Slovenia
-
Sand dunes in the Sahara, Algeria
-
An underwater paradise
-
International Archaeology Day
-
International Literacy Day
-
Cave Dale and Peveril Castle, Derbyshire
-
Dhaka, Bangladesh
-
A record-breaking reign
-
World Sea Turtle Day
Bing Wallpaper Gallery


