Mystery Bird: Eastern Screech-Owl, Otus asio

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[Mystery bird] Eastern Screech-Owl, Otus asio, photographed at the Unitarian/Universalist Fellowship building in Manhattan Kansas, Photographed from the inside with the woods outside to the south. [I will identify this bird for you tomorrow]

Image: photographed by Thomas Manney, this image appears here at the suggestion of Dave Rintoul.

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