Typical owl

Typical owls, subfamily Striginae is a subfamily of true owls. Most owl species are in this subfamily, except the owlets, and hawk-owls.

Description
Typical owls are very small to (scops-owls, screech-owls) to very large (Eurasian Eagle-Owl). They might be earless or have ear tufts, and their colour is brown, reddish-brown, greyish-brown, rufous, yellowish-brown, brown, grey, with streaks and spots.

Their eyes range from yellow, pale yellow, orange-brown, honey-brown, chestnut-brown, deep orange.

The cere can grey, creamy-yellow, yellow.

Their bills can be grey, greyish-brown, blackish-horn, pale yellow, light greenish-yellow, dark greenish-black, yellow, greyish-yellow.

Behaviour
Typical owls feed on insects and other arthropods, mammals, birds, frogs, reptiles and fish. Great Horned Owl feeds upon mammals the size of rabbits.

Otini: Scops-owls

 * Genus Pyrroglaux - Palau Owl
 * Genus Mascarenotus - Mascarene owls, 3 species (extinct c.1850)
 * Genus Otus: scops-owls; probably paraphyletic, about 45 species

Asionini: Eared Owls

 * Genus Ptilopsis - white-faced owls, 2 species
 * Genus Nesasio - Fearful Owl
 * Genus Asio - eared owls, 6-7 species

Megascopini: Screech-owls

 * Genus Psiloscops - Flammulated Owl
 * Genus Gymnoglaux - Bare-legged Owl or Cuban Screech-owl
 * Genus Megascops: screech-owls, some 20 species

Pulsatrigini

 * Genus Lophostrix - Crested Owl
 * Genus Pulsatrix - spectacled owls, 3 species

Strigini: Wood-owls

 * Genus Jubula - Maned Owl
 * Genus Strix - earless owls, some 10 species
 * Genus Ciccaba - split from Strix, 11 species

Bubonini: Eagle-owls

 * Genus Bubo - horned and eagle owls, some 10 species
 * Genus Nyctaetus - 2 species
 * Genus Scotopelia - 3 species
 * Genus Ketupa - 9 species