The Crested Owl has a chestnut-brown body and long ear tufts and is active at night in humid forest. It hunts insects and small animals from a perch.
It is chestnut-brown, with a white V-shaped facial pattern and long ear tufts. Parts of the wing coverts are also white.
It is nocturnal and ambushes large insects and small vertebrates from a perch.
An extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.