Rare Mottled Wood Owl at Bandhavgarh! <br /><br />The Mottled Wood Owl or Strix ocellata is a species of large owl found in India. They can be found in Gardens, Thin deciduous forests adjacent to dry thorn forests or farmland. They have tremulous eerie calls at dawn and dusk which makes them different. The male and female duet call is unique while other notes include a low hoot and a screech. The male calls one or two times followed by the female's shorter and less tremulous version. They don't have ear tufts and are mottled in reddish brown and white color. They have fine black and white concentric barring on the face. The male and female are almost similar to each other in looks. They have white chin, orange eyelid with dark brown Iris. The tail is narrow and black brown in color. The concentric barring on the face and mottled crown separates it from the Brown Wood Owl in southern India. <br /><br /><br />They usually roost in pairs at daytime. They shelter within thick groves of trees but sometimes they fly in bright sunshine. They breed in November and build nests from February to April. The nest is built in the hollow of a tree with two or three whiter eggs. They eat palm squirrels, mice and other smaller mammals. <br /><br />This footage is part of the professionally-shot broadcast stock footage archive of Wilderness Films India Ltd., the largest collection of imagery from South Asia. The Wilderness Films India collection comprises of thousands of hours of high quality broadcast imagery, mostly shot on HDCAM 1080i High Definition, HDV and XDCAM. Write to us for licensing this footage on a broadcast format, for use in your production! We are happy to be commissioned to film for you or else provide you with broadcast crewing and production solutions across South Asia. We pride ourselves in bringing the best of India and South Asia to the world... Reach us at rupindang [at] gmail [dot] com and admin@wildfilmsindia.com.<br /><br />
