The Mottled Wood Owl is a large owl without ear tufts, marked with reddish-brown and white mottling. It uses gardens and open woodland near dry forests and calls at dawn and dusk.
It lacks ear tufts and has reddish-brown and white mottled plumage. Fine concentric black-and-white barring marks the facial disc, and the sexes are alike.
It occurs in gardens, thin deciduous forest, and near dry thorn forest or farmland. Its tremulous call is heard at dawn and dusk.
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