Widespread in Europe, and long established after introduction in Great Britain, the Little Owl is small, chunky, flat-headed, and short-tailed. It can appear very round when perched out in the open by day, but may stretch upwards to look more elongated when alarmed. It hunts at dusk sometimes perches quite openly in daylight, often attracting the noisy attention of small birds. Its undulating flight may briefly recall a woodpecker or large thrush. In much of Europe, it lives in ruins and old barns with tiled roofs, or on hillsides with boulders and stones scattered over the slopes. Voice: Loud, musical, plaintive calls, rising keeeooo, sharper werro! short kip kip kip - Rob Hume, RSPB Birds of Britain and Europe, Dorling Kindersley, 2006, p.214.
About postcard: Atelier Schumann, 72731 Reutlingen; photo: Dietmar Nill.
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