Little Owl
Athene noctua
This small owl with yellow eyes and pale “eyebrows” often looks stern; when agitated it bobs up and down conspicuously. It hunts a lot on foot on the ground and therefore depends on short-grazed areas.
- Group
- Owls
- Photos
- 2
- Taken
- 2019–2025
Profile: Little Owl
- Family
- True owls (Strigidae)
- Size
- approx. 21–23 cm
- Wingspan
- approx. 50–58 cm
- Weight
- approx. 160–250 g
- Habitat
- Open, varied farmland with grazed pastures, traditional orchards and old pollarded willows or buildings with cavities.
- Diet
- Mice, large insects and beetles, earthworms and occasionally small birds.
- When to see
- Highly sedentary resident, present in its territory all year; often seen sunning itself on a perch during the day.
Learn more: Wikipedia · NABU (German)