This owl is active at night. Adults have a gray-brown back with white spots on the wings, and they hunt small to medium-sized animals.
Adults are gray-brown above with white spots on the wings. The pale underparts are heavily streaked with gray-brown, and the eyes are yellow.
It hunts mostly at night, locating prey from the air or from a perch. It eats small to medium-sized mammals, birds, reptiles, and insects, though it may also hunt in daylight.
An extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.