There are few sounds in nature as raucous as the calls of Barred Owls. Listen as The Cornell Lab’s Laura Erickson sets the scene.
Audio recordings and photographs by Gerrit Vyn.
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I'm trying to attract Barred owls to my backyard. I have a row of tall mostly cottonwood trees that back into grassy swampy area with a creek nearby. Will putting an owl house on one of the trees be a good idea?
I was sitting on my porch at night and heard what sounded like a goat in my tree, then a few moments later a giant owl flew away.
Bhai jaan baat kar sakte ho kya
Bhai sahab Ullu ke bare mein Jankari leni Thi aapse
ancient souls ?
Omg my chickens were out free ranging yesterday making a lot of noise then all of a sudden I heard a strange sound coming from the trees I thought it may be a monkey! I followed the sound and sure enough it was 2 owls I could barely see them because it was starting to get really dark I didn’t know they made the sounds so I looked up owl sounds and sure enough here I am?
On more than one occasion I have called these owls into close range, one time into a limb just a few feet overhead. Never miss an opportunity to interact with them when I am in the Spring turkey woods.
Thank you so much! You solved my many years of confusion!！
Oh yeah I’ve heard this before, in the middle of the night when I was camping.
My husband and I heard this going for a nature walk and he jumped into my arms!?
I leave Southern Indiana and I've got Bard Owl's. Last year I thought I lost them but this year there back. The time my girlfriend heard them she totally freaked. She thought we was being exact by monkeys I had eat n out palms of my hand,it was a blast.I did tell her what I thought the time I heard them the hair stood up on the back of neck. Leaved up around the woods all my life never heard 1 before.
One night I had a dream that several doctors were standing outside my bedroom window discussing an operation that we're going to perform on me. the dream seemed very malevolent. I managed to open my eyes but it was still very hard for me to move and finally I managed to move my eyes and maybe my head towards my cat who was also sleeping on the bed. She was sitting up and her head was whipping back and forth from window to window listening to these voices. It took me about 5 minutes to realize that these were owls and probably exactly the ones that are shown in this video. The voices still creep me in the middle of the night but I do like the birds. I even think of owls as some kind of special animal apart from other birds.
Let my dog out tonight, and one of these was looking down at us from up in a tree only about 20 feet away. It was awesome!
"Who cooks for you"
We have a pair in our neighborhood. You can hear them calling to each other at dusk. Beautiful sound.
10 years later and still helping people in Florida realize they're NOT hearing Kookaburra calls in the middle of the night.
They are so cool!
I love owls!
Magnificent cratures!
Im blessed to hear them often. In fact at 3 pm yesterday sitting on my back porch I hear " Who cooks for you" over and over.
They're beautiful birds. They look like benevolent aliens with those big black eyes.
I hope see bird owl
I’ve heard them at night, enthralled at their beauty, the strong voice that sounds so much larger than their physical size. Never get tired at listening to them.
Thought it was a power drill of some kind when I first heard the sound, but it donned on me that it was an owl. After closer inspection, I could make out the owl's silhouette in the tree branches against the semi-light sky. It's the first I've seen and heard an owl like this. The audio confirmed my research. Thanks for this.
My greyhound had a barred owl nemesis for three years. The two of them would "converse" from about 3am until 5 am in the late summer months. Freaked out the neighborhood ?
This doesn't even compare to the sound of a barn owl. That is bizarre.
I heard that owl the first time when camping with a friend and thankfully i knew they where owls otherwise we may have abandoned camp
Every year on my property I hear them especially in the fall.
I always stop and listen to them.
I'm glad they are here because they keep the small rodents off the property.
Nature's best exterminators
Shortly after I moved into my house in a rural town in Vermont (from a bad neighborhood in White Plains, NY), I heard a barred owl. I first assumed it was a drunk "howling at the moon" and thought, "Who's that joker?". After listening more closely, what a relief and a delight it was to discover the sound was made by a barred owl!
Owl can make sound like us ???
I live in the Panhandle in an extremely rural area. When I first heard them I swore it was some huge coyote or something! Being from LI NY I've never heard anything like this before. Every single night I hear them and it's scary as hell.
Love hearing the owls here in Vermont. Tonight Ive heard hooting off an on for hours. Its 1:30 AM. Somethings making them excited. Maybe coming into a full moon? One night I heard an unusual sound like hurt deer or dog.. I kept talking to it being concerned. It would make the sound again an again as I was talking.. while Im thinking it was a dog or deer hurt. Lol I recorded it an sent it to Vermont Institute of Natural Science https://vinsweb.org/ here in VT. She wrote me back told me it was a Barred Owl Thankfully we have these learning places to find out what’s actually important.. If we only had TV to rely on I would hate to see how horrible our lives would be. . I appreciate listening to your vid sooo much! ?
This could have been recorded in my yard…..just about any night of the week! Love my owls!
This morning at 3 a.m. one of these was in my front yard near the road. I love this sound and i played this video out the window and then i heard two of them go at it…LOL!!! Owls are my North American birth animal totem….love them. Thank you so much for posting this.
An owl was seated outside my house and crows tried to attack him and when the owl flew somewhere else then probably 100s of crows ran after him. Are they going to kill that owl I’m really scared
You gotta be devoted to call the sound of the barred owl "magical."
We want to hear owls.. not you.
I have them in my part of Maryland and they really get sounding crazy like in this audio. It's pretty spooky in the dead of night
Ryt now I listen this voice nd comments
Backyard mystery solved! Thank you from Memphis! TN
Just heard them calling in my city neighborhood! I'm thrilled! One of the Covid-19 blessings!
Yup. 3 o'clock in the morning with my window open. Pitch black out. And i here one every year. Its peaceful to me.
I came to hear owl voices not yours
This is commonly heard in Ohio too.
My favorite bird of all time
Good video. I lived in Ithaca for 16 years but never visited the site on Sapsucker Woods Rd. But I will if I ever visit Ithaca in the future.
I was camping in western D.C the forest part. At night me my dad and my little brother went owling we called for barred owls and could just barely could here one off in the distance but nothing ever came close to us and it was getting late so we went back to the camper. After everyone was asleep about 20 minutes later except for me and my brother I heard something like a branch crack above are bed..and then another I held my breath so it was silent (if you want to know what it sounded like play this video with headphones on) then thay bersted out with hooting for about 10 minutes! And the whole time I had the biggest grin on my face. I will never forget that night.