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ML644020722

Great Horned Owl Bubo virginianus

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Contributor

Kat Avila Media from this contributor Profile

Date

6 Oct 2025 eBird checklist S277746605

Location

RSM - Trabuco Creek Trail bike path, Avenida Empresa trailhead
Orange, California, United States
Media from this location Illustrated Checklist
Map
Map Coordinates: 33.6412316, -117.6088103
Age and sex
Adult Female - 1; Adult Male - 1
Behaviors
Courtship, display, or copulation
Sounds
Duet; Song
Playback
Playback not used

Media notes

6:58 pm, sounds of copulation; wind & vehicular traffic background noise; @02:15 car alarm honking

Observation details

--6:44 pm, hooting --6:47 pm, perched in dead tree --6:50 pm, 2nd owl heard --6:52 pm, owl spotted at powerpole --6:54-6:57 pm, Powerpole owl flew over to adjacent wilderness area and circled back to powerpole, as myself and a couple of passersby watched. Wilderness owl joined other at powerpole. They flew at each other, and then spun or crashed into the bushes below. Unexpected surprising vocalizations, muffled hooting, really loud squealing. --7:17-7:24 pm, Heard hooting at southend trees of O'Neill Regional Park. Another owl?

Additional species

  • White-crowned Sparrow Zonotrichia leucophrys

Technical information

Recorder
Nikon Coolpix P950
Microphone
Accessories
Original file size
49.22 MB

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