The Lesser Horned Owl ranges from central Peru toward the southern tip of South America. It hunts in open country and roosts or nests in scrub, forest edges, and similar sites.
It is brownish gray with narrow dark bars across paler underparts. Pale, dark, and intermediate color morphs occur.
It hunts mainly at dawn and dusk, taking small rodents and other medium-sized prey.
An extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.